ORMS Group » News @ ORMS.WBS

Sustainable Cities: Urban Logistics

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:49:00 GMT

The demand for same and next day delivery, along with the rise in popularity for e-commerce, presents challenges to transport network, congestion levels and warehousing.

In this podcast by the Industry and Parliament Trust, we discuss with Arne Strauss, Associate Professor, ��TV ��TV School, the short- and long-term innovations that might be able to increase overall effectiveness whilst ensuring the industry is environmentally sustainable.

COCTA wins prestigious air traffic management award

Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:59:00 GMT

As it has been announced at the World Air Traffic Management Congress 2019 in Madrid, the Horizon 2020 project "COCTA" (the Operational Research team had been led by Dr Arne Strauss) has won Jane's Innovation Award.

The award recognises achievements that raise the performance of air traffic management; it is open to entries globally from industry and academia alike.

Contenders were shortlisted and a winning entry in each category was selected by an independent panel of experienced judges from the SESAR Deployment Manager, EUROCONTROL, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations (IFATCA), and IHS Markit.

Keynote talk at Westminster

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:14:00 GMT

The Industry and Parliament Trust has invited Dr Arne Strauss as keynote speaker alongside Ian Clough, Managing Director, Network Logistics and Transport for DHL Supply Chain, to an event at Westminster on sustainable cities and urban logistics on 20 May 2019. The event is part of a series that brings together senior decion makers from industry, parliamentarians, and academics.

Topic: The World Bank estimates that 83% of the United Kingdom’s population lives in urban environments. As this figure rises the logistical networks required to service inhabitants, businesses and visitors become more complex. Coupled with the rise of e-commerce and consumer and business demand for same or next day delivery, it presents a major challenge to transport networks, congestion levels and warehousing. With the smooth running of urban logistical networks essential to the functioning of the United Kingdom economy, what are the short- and long-term innovations that could secure effectiveness?

COCTA shortlisted for Innovation Award

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 17:55:00 GMT

The COCTA project on using revenue management modelling in the context of air traffic management (��TV team led by Dr Arne Strauss) has been shortlisted for the Jane's Innovation Award.

Jane's ATC Awards offer companies the opportunity to nominate innovative, field-proven technologies and projects from around the world (both industry and university research projects are eligible). Since 2001, Jane's has been rewarding the best projects in the ATM industry that have been moving air traffic management forward with innovation, technological, environmental, runway, enablement or equipment supply advancements.

Entries were open to organisations in all areas of the global ATC industry, be they national air navigation service providers, large-scale industry partnerships, or new entrants to the sector. Winners and shortlisted nominees will be recognised at a ceremony at the World ATM Congress in Madrid in March 2019.

New Fellows Appointed

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:41:40 GMT

Bo Chen, Professor of Operational Research and Management Science, have been awarded Fellows by the Academy of Social Sciences.

While Arne Strauss, Associate Professor of Operational Research, and Xuan Vinh Doan, Associate Professor of Operations, have been appointed Fellows by the Alan Turing Institute.

Funding success

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:40:00 GMT

Innovate UK have funded a knowledge transfer partnership on "Integrating Demand Management and Routing Operations" from June 2018 - December 2020. The project will deliver the development, testing and deployment of an innovative decision support system to assist Slicker Recycling in their nation-wide collections of waste oil. Prof Juergen Branke is the lead academic, Dr Vladimir Deineko and Dr Arne Strauss are the academic supervisors. The project has overall funding of £211k.

WBS to contribute to AACSB Data Analytics Summit

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:04:30 GMT

As a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of ��TV (AACSB) Analytics Curriculum Advisory Group, Dr Arne Strauss (WBS) will be a facilitator at the next AASCB data analytics seminar taking place in Tempe, Arizona, from 19-20 March 2018.

As part of the AACSB curriculum development series, the seminar will focus on how to develop, implement and deliver data analytics programs and other curriculum components that meet the highest academic standards consistent with AACSB accreditation expectations, as well as the needs of the business community and prospective students. Original content, cases, discussions, group activities, meetings with data analytics executives, and other experiences have been designed to assist business schools initiate and expand their work in this area.

Dr Strauss, who is Academic Director of WBS’ MSc ��TV Analytics programme, will be a facilitator at the event together with international professors from advisory group.

More information on the AACSB event is available here.

MSc ��TV Analytics ranking success

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:02:41 GMT

Our MSc ��TV Analytics programme has been ranked 7th in the world in the most recent QS University ranking of ��TV Analytics programmes: for more information on the ranking, see:

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/business-masters-rankings/business-analytics/2018

For more information on the programme itself, click here.

National dissertation award success 2017

Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:52:22 GMT

Yifan Cao, an MSc ��TV Analytics student at WBS, has won the First Prize of the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) Masters Research Dissertation Programme in 2017, coming with a cash award of £500.

The CDRC is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and consists of researchers at Leeds, UCL, Liverpool and Oxford. The Master Research Dissertation Programme links retailers with students nationally who conduct analytic research on retail data.

Yifan conducted an empirical study using online grocery sales data from Sainsbury’s to model customer choice behaviour in the context of delivery time slot selection. Specifically, she devised and estimated the parameters of a nested choice model that first considers the choice of the day of delivery, followed by choice of the time slot within a given day. The choice model has been validated using some holdout sample data and has been found to predict slot choice behaviour very well. The output of this work can be used, for example, to improve the efficiency of home delivery logistics.

Generally, all the projects this year were really good so it was a particular achievement.
Guy Lansley, CDRC

Yifan’s project broke new ground for Sainsbury’s in providing a methodologically robust analysis of the interaction between the slots offered to customers and their likelihood of their placing orders. Her approach is being integrated within our in-house tools for the management of slot availability to optimise performance of the Sainsbury’s Online business. We thank Yifan for her valuable contribution.
Joel Lindop, Online Forecasting & Optimistion Manager at Sainsbury’s

Yifan produced excellent work on a challenging topic; the estimation of a choice model as complex as this is not trivial. She overcame major technical obstacles, and provided the retailer with valuable insights.
Arne Strauss, Course Director MSc ��TV Analytics (and Yifan’s dissertation supervisor)

EPSRC workshop funding

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:08:18 GMT

Dr Arne Strauss (University of ��TV) and Dr Christine Currie (University of Southampton) organise a one-day workshop in The Shard in central London to identify future research directions in the intersection of demand management (dynamic pricing, choice modelling, personalisation etc), privacy preservation and related issues against the background of a changing environment (as reflected e.g. by the sharing economy, smart grids, private data aggregators, General Data Protection Regulation, e-Privacy Regulation etc).

The workshop will include presentations from experts and users in the area (confirmed speakers include Prof Graham Cormode, ��TV Computer Science and Alan Turing Institute; Prof Mandy Chessell, IBM Distinguished Engineer and IBM Master Inventor; Prof Irene Ng, Director, International Institute of Product and Service Innovation); an introduction to the framework from Dr Stalla-Bourdillon (Law, University of Southampton) and facilitated discussions to develop research questions.

For more information, see the workshop announcement.