Tom Van Woensel

Tom Van Woensel

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I hold the position of Full Professor in Freight Transport and Logistics within the Operations, Planning, Accounting, and Control group at the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in the Netherlands. My research focus lies within the realm of freight transport and logistics.

I also hold a significant managerial role as the department's Director of Education and Graduate Program Director. This role entails bridging the department with the broader university structure. My tenure as the Director of Education and Graduate Program Director witnessed adept management of diverse programs, encompassing an enrollment of approximately 2,500 B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. students. Additionally, I fulfilled the role of program chair for the Bachelor Program in Industrial Engineering and safeguarded examination integrity through my chairmanship and membership in the Exam Committee. Expanding my roles, I also hold positions as an academic director at the Antwerp Management School and the TIAS Business School.

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    Eindhoven University of Technology

    Eindhoven

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    Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

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    Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands

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    Antwerp Area, Belgium

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    Montreal, Canada Area

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    Eindhoven

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    Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

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  • A green intermodal service network design problem with travel time uncertainty

    Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

    In a more and more competitive and global world, freight transports have to overcome increasingly long distances while at the same time becoming more reliable. In addition, a raising awareness of the need for environmentally friendly solutions increases the importance of transportation modes other than road. Intermodal transportation, in that regard, allows for the combination of different modes in order to exploit their individual advantages. Intermodal transportation networks offer flexible…

    In a more and more competitive and global world, freight transports have to overcome increasingly long distances while at the same time becoming more reliable. In addition, a raising awareness of the need for environmentally friendly solutions increases the importance of transportation modes other than road. Intermodal transportation, in that regard, allows for the combination of different modes in order to exploit their individual advantages. Intermodal transportation networks offer flexible, robust and environmentally friendly alternatives to transport high volumes of goods over long distances. In order to reflect these advantages, it is the challenge to develop models which both represent multiple modes and their characteristics (e.g., fixed-time schedules and routes) as well as the transhipment between these transportation modes. In this paper, we introduce a Green Intermodal Service Network Design Problem with Travel Time Uncertainty (GISND-TTU) for combined offline intermodal routing decisions of multiple commodities. The proposed stochastic approach allows for the generation of robust transportation plans according to different objectives (i.e., cost, time and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions) by considering uncertainties in travel times as well as demands with the help of the sample average approximation method. The proposed methodology is applied to a real-world network, which shows the advantages of stochasticity in achieving robust transportation plans.

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  • Approximating Multi-Objective Scheduling Problems

    Computers and Operations Research

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  • Branch and price for the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows

    Transportation Science

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  • A selected review on the negative externalities of the freight transportation: Modeling and pricing

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  • Multimodal freight transportation planning: A literature review

    European Journal of Operations Research 233(1): 1-15, 2014.

    We give an overview of the multimodal transportation literature from 2005 onward.
    We approach the papers on strategic, tactical, and operational levels of planning.
    We discuss multimodal, intermodal, co-modal, and synchromodal transportation.
    We conclude our review paper with future research directions.

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Projects

  • Cargo Hitching

    Cargo hitching means the combination of people and cargo flows: cargo that hitches a ride on a vehicle transporting persons or persons hitching a ride on a vehicle transporting cargo. This creates attractive business opportunities because the same transportation needs can be met with fewer vehicles and drivers.

    Cargo hitching can make socially desirable transport options economically viable in rural areas where the population is declining. In urban areas it reduces congestion and air…

    Cargo hitching means the combination of people and cargo flows: cargo that hitches a ride on a vehicle transporting persons or persons hitching a ride on a vehicle transporting cargo. This creates attractive business opportunities because the same transportation needs can be met with fewer vehicles and drivers.

    Cargo hitching can make socially desirable transport options economically viable in rural areas where the population is declining. In urban areas it reduces congestion and air pollution and facilitates the introduction of electric vehicles.

    The cargo hitching project aims to design and test integrated people and freight synchromodal transportation networks and the related coordination (4C), planning and scheduling policies to enable efficient and reliable delivery of both persons and small- to medium-sized freight volumes.

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  • DAVINC3I

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    How can the Netherlands maintain its world leadership in the floricultural industry? Which means are available to realise remote trade, logistics and coordination? Within the DaVinc3i project, growers, traders, logistics service providers and 3 Dutch universities are developing ideas about this.

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Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Dutch

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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