Business Meeting SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 9, 2014 Outline 2014 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Business Meeting SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Outline  2014 Activity Report (10 minutes)  Election and Incoming Officers (5 minutes)  RAS Student Paper Award (5 minutes)  RAS Problem Solving Competition Award (10 minutes)  RAS Distinguished Member Award (15 minutes)  Additional Items and Open Discussions (15 minutes) RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Major Activities (1/2)  Frequent communications through mailing list and social media  Major update of RAS website  Academia-industry collaboration  Organizing 12 sessions  Student Paper and Problem Solving Competitions  Larger social media presence (LinkedIn: 500+ and Facebook: 50+ Members) RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Major Activities (2/2)  Annual RAS Newsletter  RAS Sponsorship  Roundtable  RAS Dinner  RAS Distinguished Member Award  Elections and RAS Bylaws RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Enablers  Sandra Eksioglu (Vice-chair)  Erick Wikum (Secretary)  Viraj Karnik (Treasurer)  Xuesong Zhou (PR Officer)  Burak Eksioglu (Cluster Chair)  Xiaopeng Li (Problem Solving Competition)  April Kuo (Student Paper Competition)  Marc Meketon (Roundtable)  Jeremiah Dirnberger (Competition Problem Owner)  Tracy Cahall (INFORMS Representative)  Krishna Jha (Chair) RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Big Thanks to … : : Our Sponsors RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Financial Updates (1/2) 16000 14000 12000 Balance 10000 Membership Expense 8000 National Meeting 6000 Award Sponsorships 4000 Dues 2000 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Expected -2000 RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Financial Updates (2/2) R/E Beginning Balance $14,225.00 2014 up to 7/31/14 Revenue $6,075.00 2014 up to 7/31/14 Expenses $95.38 R/E 7/31/14 Balance $20,205.12 Expected Additional Expenses $12,100.00 Expected Additional Sponsorships $10,000.00 Expected R/E Ending Balance $18,105.12 RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

2015 RAS Membership Fee  Regular INFORMS Member - $15/-  Regular INFORMS Non-member - $25/-  Student INFORMS Member - $5/-  Student INFORMS Non-member - $10/- RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Incoming Officers  Chair: Sandra D. Eksioglu, Clemson University  Co-Vice Chair: Kevin Crook, BNSF Railway  Co-Vice Chair: Xuesong Zhou , Arizona State University Tenure:  Jan 1 st to Dec 31 st , 2015 Treasurer: Alper Uygur, BNSF Railway  Secretary: Mingzhou Jin, University of Tennessee Knoxville  PR Officer: Xiaopeng Li, Mississippi State University RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

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  First Place paper will be considered for publication in Networks. The paper will receive an expedited refereeing and publication process RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Student Paper Award - Winners  First Prize ($1000)  Tie Shi, Southwest Jiaotong University, China  A mixed integer programming model for optimizing multi-level operations process in rail yards  Second Prize ($500)  Xiaojie Luan, Beijing Jiaotong University, China  A balanced train dispatching model toward reducing train delays and inequity of competitors  Third Prize ($250)  Joris Wagenaar, Erasmus University, Netherlands  Maintenance in the rolling stock rescheduling model for passenger railways RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Student Paper Award – Reviewing Panel  Anant Balakrishnan, University of Texas at Austin  David Hunt, Oliver Wyman  Gerardo Trevino, BNSF Railway  Jing Huang, CSX Transportation  June Si, BNSF Railway  Kamalesh Somani, CSX Transportation  Marc Meketon, Oliver Wyman  Maurice Cheung, Norfolk Southern  Scott Grasman, Rochester Institute of Technology  Xin Zhang, Norfolk Southern  Yiqiang Su, BNSF Railway  Yu Wang, CSX Transportation  Yudi Pranoto, Norfolk Southern  Chair: April Kuo, BNSF Railways RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Problem Solving Competition Railroad Hump Yard Block-to-Track Assignment   Chair - Xiaopeng Li, Mississippi State University Solution Checkers  Jinjin Tang, Beijing Jiaotong University  Problem Owners  Xuesong Zhou, Arizona State University  Krishna Jha, OPTYM  Fang Zhou and Xiaopeng Li, MSU  Jeremiah Dirnberger, CSX   Chip Kraft, TEMS Inc. Judging Panel  Xiaopeng Li, Mississippi State University  Behnam Behdani, BNSF  Tyler Dick, RailTEC, UIUC  Edward Lin, Norfolk Southern  Yudi Pranoto, Norfolk Southern  Jeremiah Dirnberger, CSX  Kamalesh Somani, CSX  Sandra Eksioglu, Clemson University  Yu Wang, CSX  Steven Harrod, Technical University of Denmark  Xuesong Zhou, ASU  Krishna Jha, OPTYM RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Honorable Mentions  Bortor : Torsten Klug, Boris Grimm, Zuse Institut, Berlin, Germany  TCSexplORers : Sudhir Kumar Sinha, Shripad Salsingikar, Sumit Raut, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India  Tom's: Haichuan Tang, Southwest Jiaotong University, Sichuan, China  University at Buffalo Operations : Natalie Simpson, Ryan Hauser , University at Buffalo, NY, USA RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Problem Solving Competition Winners  First Place: Team “DTU”: Richard Martin Lusby, Jørgen Thorlund Haahr, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark  Second Place: Team “NCKU”: I-Lin Wang, Ping-Cheng Lin, Tsai-Ti Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan  Third Place: Team “The Dutch Smiths”: Paul Bouman, Joris Wagenaar, Lucas Veelenturf, Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

2014 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 CARL VAN DYKE Look for announcements in Informs E-News and Railway Age RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Additional Items  Proposed Constitution Changes Microsoft Word Document  2015 Volunteers  Officers  Cluster chair  Problem solving  Student paper competition  Roundtable  Ideas on 2015 problem competition  Identify a topic of interest based on RAS sessions  Adapt ongoing project from industry – analytics, etc. RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

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 RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Improvement Ideas  Experience with student involvements RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

RAS Networking Dinner  Urban Tavern, Hilton Lobby besides Starbucks  See Krishna Jha to check seat availability, if you have not registered for the event. RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Thank You… from 2014 RAS Officers and Volunteers RAS Business Meeting, San Francisco, CA