ICTLE 2011 : "International Conference on Transportation and Logistics Engineering"

Phuket, Thailand
December 21-23, 2011

The International Conference on Transportation and Logistics Engineering aims to bring together academic scientists, leading engineers, industry researchers and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Transportation and Logistics Engineering, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
The International Conference on Transportation and Logistics Engineering is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Transportation and Logistics Engineering. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Transportation Engineering
Transportation planning and system optimization
ITS theory and applications
Traffic control and information technology
Transportation and socioeconomic development
transportation security, environmental protection, and sustainable development
Urban public transportation planning and management
high-speed railway planning, construction, and operation organization
Transportation Safety
Transportation Planning
Air Transportation
Marine Transportation
Metropolitan Transportation
Freight Transportation
Emergency Response Systems and Technologies
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Energy Saving and Alternative Energy
Automotive Exhaust Treatment and Environment Protection Technologies
Transportation Infrastructure (Pavement, Bridge)
Highway Maintenance and Management
Transportation Management, Economics and Policy
Vehicle Operations
Rail and Transit Systems
Water Transportation
Security and Monitoring Systems

Logistics Engineering
Systems of supply chain performance measurement
Controlling methods for supply chains
Innovative IT systems as performance drivers (SOA etc.)
Benefit allocation of IT-based performance drivers among supply chain partners
Agent-based simulation/other simulation approaches
Quantitative and qualitative performance measures
Efficiency of profit and risk sharing in supply chain networks
Performance of suppliers and service providers
Performance aspects of logistics node design
Interrelationships between management methods and supply chain performance
Measurement of soft factors in supply chains
Radio frequency identification (RFID) as supply chain performance driver
Performance-focused analysis of interorganizational business relations
Performance effects of infrastructure management
Sustainability and supply chain performance
Innovative concepts for modelling, simulation and optimization of transportation networks
Managing logistics service quality
Development of key performance indicators (KPI) for supply chains
Risk Management and SC Performance
Financial and non-financial performance measurement
Implications of bottlenecks for supply chain performance
Effects of complexity on supply chain performance