Tom Van Woensel

About me

I am a professor in Freight Transport and Logistics at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. I develop models of transport, logistics, and mobility problems using operations research techniques. I established a strong academic foundation in supply chains, transportation, logistics, and mobility. By combining academic expertise with practical…Continue reading “About me”

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Promising results for Cargo Hitching in practice!

26 Nov 201426 Nov 2014

In his recently defended Master Thesis, OML student Tijs Jansen together with Binnenstadservice described the appropriateness of an integrated passenger- and freight transportation system. Tijs did this work within the…

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Webinar on Urban Distribution

Today, I did my first webinar at Tias. Interesting setup and fun to do. You can access the webinar here.

Almost 4500 views for our multimodal review paper

21 Jul 201421 Jul 2014

We received news that our paper (Multimodal freight transportation planning: A literature review) attracted more than 4000 views already! See here for a full overview of the views history. This is…

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Flexible time windows in Vehicle Routing Problems

14 Jul 201414 Jul 2014

I am happy that our joint paper with Duygu Tas and Ola Jabali (two former PhD students): A Vehicle Routing Problem with Flexible Time Windows is recently accepted for publication…

Expansion method…

Optimal routing in queueing networks

15 Jun 201415 Jun 2014

The paper: Optimal Routing in General Finite Multi-Server Queueing Networks is accepted for publication in the PLOS ONE. This paper has also been lying around for quite some time, but…