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Business Meeting PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 1, 2015 Outline RAS Problem Solving Competition Award (10 minutes) RAS Student Paper Award (5 minutes) 2015 Activity Report (10 minutes) Election and Incoming Officers (5 minutes) RAS

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Business Meeting

PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 1, 2015

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Outline

  • RAS Problem Solving Competition Award (10 minutes)
  • RAS Student Paper Award (5 minutes)
  • 2015 Activity Report (10 minutes)
  • Election and Incoming Officers (5 minutes)
  • RAS Distinguished Member Award (15 minutes)
  • Additional Items and Open Discussions (15 minutes)

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Problem Solving Competition

RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA Pro roblem Ow Owners

  • April Kuo, BNSF
  • Yanhong Wang, BNSF

Track geo eometry analy lytics

Jud Judging Panel

  • Behnam Behdani, BNSF
  • Tyler Dick, RailTEC, UIUC
  • Krystel Castillo, University of Texas at San

Antonio

  • Steven Harrod, Technical University of Denmark
  • Krishna Jha, OPTYM
  • Linkan Bian, Mississippi State University
  • Mengqi Hu, ,Mississippi State University
  • Jin Mingzhou University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • Aihong Weng, CSX Transportation
  • Chip Kraft, TEMS Inc.
  • Edward Lin, Norfolk Southern Railway
  • Kamalesh Somani, CSX Transportation

Ge General supp support & Org Organizatio ion

  • Jeremiah Dirnberger, CSX
  • Sandra Eksisoglu, Clemson

Cha Chair – Francesco Corman, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)

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Honorable Mentions

Tunisian Team/VNP:

Souhir Elleuc, Bassem Jarboui, Nenad Mladenovic Sfax university, Tunisia and Valenciennes, France

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Problem Solving Competition Winners

1st Place: Team “IRA Group” Negin Alemazkoor, Conrad Ruppert, Hadi Meidani University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US 2nd Place: “Uniandes Team of Stochastic Optimization - UTSO” Iván Cárdenas Gallo, Carlos Sarmiento Cardona, Gilberto Morales Zamora; Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia 3rd Place: Team “TCS Explorers” Sadir Kumar Sinha, Sumit Raut, Harshad Kadilkar Tata Consultancy Services, India

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Student Paper Award

  • RAS sponsored the Student Paper Award
  • Research Paper on analytics and fact-based decision making in railway

applications with a total cash award of $1,750

  • A total of eight papers were submitted for the competition

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Student Paper Award – Reviewing Panel

  • Anant Balakrishnan, University of Texas at Austin
  • David Hunt, Oliver Wyman
  • Shrikant Jarugumilli, BNSF Railway
  • Edward Lin, Norfolk Southern Railway
  • Gaohao Luo, Norfolk Southern Railway
  • Shantih Spanton, CSX Transportation
  • Kamalesh Somani, CSX Transportation
  • Yiqiang Su, BNSF Railway
  • Yu Wang, CSX Transportation
  • Kuilin Zhang, Michigan Tech university
  • Xin Zhang, Norfolk Southern Railway
  • Chair: April Kuo, BNSF Railway

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Student Paper Award - Winners

  • Fir

irst Priz rize ($ ($1000)

  • Nikola Bešinović, Department of Transport and Planning, Delft University of Technology, The

Netherlands “A novel two-stage approach to robust periodic timetabling.”

  • Sec

econd Priz rize ($ ($500)

  • Joris C. Wagenarr, Erasmus University, The Netherlands

“Solving the depot problem.”

  • Thir

ird Priz rize ($ ($250)

  • Shuguang Zhan, School of Transportation & Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University,Chengdu, China

“Rea eal-time high igh spee eed tr train res escheduli ling in in case e of

  • f a part

rtia ial seg egment bloc lockage railways.”

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Major Activities (1/2)

  • RAS officers have used INFORMS connect and social media to maintain

communication with RAS members.

  • RAS has a large social media presence (LinkedIn: 550+ and Facebook: 50+

Members).

  • RAS organized a total of 13 sessions for the annual INFORMS conference.
  • The 2015 Student Paper and Problem Solving Competitions were very well

represented.

  • We are grateful to our sponsors for their continuous sponsorship of RAS

activities.

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Many Thanks to …

Our r Sp Sponsors

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Major Activities (2/2)

  • RAS officers prepared the midyear and annual RAS newsletters.
  • Successful elections of the 2016 RAS officers.
  • RAS Networking Dinner to follow the business meeting.
  • 2015 RAS Distinguished Member Award.

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Special Thanks to RAS Officers and Volunteers

  • Kevin Crook (Vice-chair)
  • Xuesong Zhou (Vice-chair)
  • Mingzhou Jin (Secretary)
  • Alper Uygur (Treasurer)
  • Xiaopeng Li (PR Officer)
  • Jeremiah Dirnberger (Cluster Chair)
  • Francesco Corman (Problem Solving Competition)
  • April Kuo (Student Paper Competition, Competition Problem Co-Owner)
  • Yanhong Wang (Competition Problem Co-Owner)
  • Erick Wikum (Roundtable)
  • Licheng Zhang (Web master)
  • Tracy Cahall & Michael Rosenberg (INFORMS Representative)
  • Sandra D. Eksioglu (Chair)

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Financial Updates (1/2)

Beginning Balance $11,519.00 Membership Dues $1,550.00 Sponsorship $8,000.00 Interest Revenues $117.87 Annual Meeting Expenses ($5,500.00) Miscellaneous Expenses ($130.44) Awards ($5,500.00) Net ($1,462.57) Ending Balance $10,056.43

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As of: 9/30/2015

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Financial Updates (2/2)

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  • 10,000
  • 5,000

5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 Membership Dues Sponsorships Interest Revenue Annual Meeting Expense Misc Exp. Awards Net Ending Balance

RAS Financial Statement 2011-2015

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 (Est)

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2015 RAS Membership Fee

  • Regular INFORMS Member - $15/-
  • Regular INFORMS Non-member - $25/-
  • Student INFORMS Member - $5/-
  • Student INFORMS Non-member - $10/-

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2015 RAS Membership

Membership:

Academic 38 Business 44 Consulting 11 Government 4 Other 2 Total 99

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Membership:

Community 1 Regular 79 Retired 2 RNDTBL 1 Student 16 Total 99

Membership:

Africa 1 Asia 6 Australia 3 Canada 2 Europe 17 South America 1 USA 69 Total 99

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Incoming Officers

  • Chai

air: Xuesong Zhou , Arizona State University

  • Vic

ice Chair air: April Kuo, BNSF Railway

  • Treasu

surer: Gunnar Feldmann, Norfolk Southern Railway

  • Secretary:

Shantih Spanton, CSX Transportation

  • PR

R Officer: Tyler Dick, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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2015 RAS Distinguished Member Award

RAS Distinguished Member Award is given to recognize an individual who

  • Has made contributions with far reaching impact for RAS
  • Has given RAS a new direction and continues to inspire others to

follow their footsteps

  • Dr. Clark Cheng

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Additional Items

  • Volunteers for the 2016 INFORMS
  • Officers
  • Cluster chair
  • Problem solving
  • Student paper competition
  • Roundtable
  • Web master
  • INFORMS International Meeting will be held in Hawaii on June 12-15, 2016
  • Ideas on 2016 problem competition
  • Identify a topic of interest based on RAS sessions
  • Adapt ongoing project from industry – analytics, etc.

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Topic: Integrated optimization of Infrastructure Maintenance and Train Services Problem Solving Competition in 2016

2 Lines

36 nodes (relevant points) 40 links 2 Maintenance of Way 4 Trains to be scheduled

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Toy example

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Topic: Integrated Optimization of Infrastructure Maintenance and Train Services Problem Solving Competition in 2016

Objective function would be Minimize total train travel cost Minimize total maintenance cost Or Major constraints should include but not limited to : Train specific constraints: min section running time min and max station dwell time predetermined departure time Capacity constraints: infrastructure constraints maintenance related speed slowing down constraints Maintenance tasks: maintenance location, duration, frequency etc...

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Topic: Integrated Optimization of Infrastructure Maintenance and Train Services Problem Solving Competition in 2016

An example solution:

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Outreaching Ideas

  • Establish university faculty affiliations: list them on RAS website. Examples are:
  • University transportation centers
  • MIT, UT Austin, Berkeley
  • Research centers in Netherlands, Italy, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan
  • Provide information about RAS test data sets to faculty members to use in teaching
  • Expand email lists to disseminate the information about RAS student paper competitions and

membership

  • Disseminate information about internship opportunities

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RAS Networking Dinner

Join us for dinner at

Room: C – 202B, 200 Level, Convention Center

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Thank You…

RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA 2015 RAS Officers and Volunteers

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