Tom Van Woensel

About me

I am a Full Professor in Freight Transport and Logistics at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and a Visiting Professor of Industrial Engineering at Özyeğin University in Türkiye. While my academic roots lie in research on Freight Transport & Logistics and Supply Chain Management, a significant portion of my…Continue reading “About me”

Cargo Hitching…

Integrated people-and-freight transportation (aka Cargo Hitching)

In recent years, there has been a significant surge in interest directed toward exploring integrated transportation systems encompassing both people and freight. We characterize an integrated system for transporting both…

fleet planning…

A Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Service Agreements

28 Jul 202328 Jul 2023

Our paper (co-authored with Vincent Karels, Walter Rei and Luuk Veelenturf) is accepted in the European Journal of Operational Research and available here. The modern logistics service providers face significant…

Green vehicle routing using mixed fleets for cold chain distribution

Our paper is now published in Expert Systems with Applications (joint work with Wanru Chen, Dezhi Zhang, Guangming Xu, and Jing Guo). You can download it here. This paper addresses…

Webinars on AI and Digital Transformation

Is AI the supply chain planner of the future? https://youtu.be/a5H70C5WeYw Digital Transformation in the Supply Chain https://youtu.be/gbodJPE3SOw

Literature review…

Milestone 10,000

Recently, I hit the 10,000 citations milestone on Google scholar! I am thrilled to have reached that milestone after almost 20 years of working at the Eindhoven University of Technology.…