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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)

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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)

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Major Activities (2/2)

• Annual RAS Newsletter
• RAS Sponsorship
• Roundtable
• RAS Dinner
• RAS Distinguished Member Award
• Elections and RAS Bylaws

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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)

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Big Thanks to …

Our Sponsors

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Financial Updates (1/2)

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2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Expected Balance Membership Expense National Meeting Award Sponsorships Dues

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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

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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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Incoming Officers

• Chair:

Sandra D. Eksioglu, Clemson University

• Co-Vice Chair:

Kevin Crook, BNSF Railway

• Co-Vice Chair:

Xuesong Zhou , Arizona State University

• Treasurer:

Alper Uygur, BNSF Railway

• Secretary:

Mingzhou Jin, University of Tennessee Knoxville

• PR Officer:

Xiaopeng Li, Mississippi State University

Tenure: Jan 1st to Dec 31st, 2015

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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
• First Place paper will be considered for publication in Networks. The paper will receive an

expedited refereeing and publication process

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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

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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

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Problem Solving Competition

• Problem Owners
• Krishna Jha, OPTYM
• Jeremiah Dirnberger, CSX

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Railroad Hump Yard Block-to-Track Assignment

• Judging Panel
• Behnam Behdani, BNSF
• Tyler Dick, RailTEC, UIUC
• Jeremiah Dirnberger, CSX
• Sandra Eksioglu, Clemson University
• Steven Harrod, Technical University of Denmark
• Krishna Jha, OPTYM
• Chip Kraft, TEMS Inc.
• Xiaopeng Li, Mississippi State University
• Edward Lin, Norfolk Southern
• Yudi Pranoto, Norfolk Southern
• Kamalesh Somani, CSX
• Yu Wang, CSX
• Xuesong Zhou, ASU
• Solution Checkers
• Jinjin Tang, Beijing Jiaotong University
• Xuesong Zhou, Arizona State University
• Fang Zhou and Xiaopeng Li, MSU
• Chair - Xiaopeng Li, Mississippi State University

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

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Problem Solving Competition Winners

• First Place: Team “DTU”: Richard Martin Lusby, Jørgen Thorlund Haahr, Technical University
• f 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

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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

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Additional Items

• Proposed Constitution Changes
• 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.

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Microsoft Word Document

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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Improvement Ideas

• Experience with student involvements

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RAS Networking Dinner

• Urban Tavern, Hilton Lobby besides Starbucks

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• See Krishna Jha to check seat availability, if you have not registered for the event.

Thank You…

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2014 RAS Officers and Volunteers

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