[DMANET] Call for Papers for the session “Electric Vehicles” within the "Green Logistics" stream for IFORS 2014

Call for Papers for the session "Electric Vehicles" within the "Green Logistics" stream for IFORS 2014

IFORS 2014. Barcelona, Spain, July 13-18 2014 www.ifors2014.org<http://www.ifors2014.org

Dear colleague,

you are kindly invited to submit a paper to the session entitled Electric Vehicles within the Green Logistics stream for the forthcoming IFORS 2014 Triennial Conference which will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on July 13-18, 2014.

This special session welcomes submissions that explicitly address the use of electric vehicles in logistics applications. For example the use of OR to optimize electric vehicle operations and operations of fleets consisting of multiple vehicle classes (conventional, hybrid, electric). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
+ Electric vehicle routing and scheduling
+ Electric vehicles in innovative (urban) logistics operations
+ Modelling and optimizing energy consumption in electric vehicle routing
+ Long-term management of electric (or mixed) vehicle fleets

Contributors are requested to contact the session organizer for an invitation code and then submit their abstracts (maximum 600 characters) via the Conference web page ( http://ifors2014.upc.edu/abstract) by 31 January 2014.

Session organizer:
Jakob Puchinger (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)
Jakob.Puchinger@ait.ac.at

*Important dates*

Abstract submissions open: 1 November 2013
Abstract submissions close: 31 January 2014
Early Registration: 1 November 2013- 28 February 2014
Regular Registration: 1 March - 30 April 2014
Late and on-site registration:1 May - 13 July 2014

For information about fees, submissions and logistics, please visit the Conference's website: www.ifors2014.org<http://www.ifors2014.org

Best Regards,
Jakob Puchinger

Jakob Puchinger
Senior Scientist
Mobility Department
Dynamic Transportation Systems

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
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jakob.puchinger@ait.ac.at | http://www.ait.ac.at

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