Topics

Topics of the conferences 

Supply chain: Sustainability, Digitalisation & Resilience

1. Sustainable Transport

• Transport, performance and social considerations
• Accessibility and equity in transport
• Sustainable mobility: social, economic, technological and environmental issues
• Pedestrian safety and transport
• Sustainable Maritime Transport Management and Policies
• Sustainable air transport management and policies
• Electric, shared and autonomous mobility practices and environmental performance
• De-carbonisation of transport, objectives and methodology
• Transport policies and CSR

2. Urban logistics

• Congestion, measurement, costs and solutions
• Urban logistics planning and decision support systems
• Green logistics and the city
• Rail and metropolitan systems
• Residential and occupational mobility
• Logistics outsourcing and urban transport
• Urban transport strategies – the challenge of de-carbonisation and sustainability
• Urban vs. rural transport
• Accessibility and rural development
• Logistics and innovation in cities and sustainability
• Sustainable multimodality in urban areas
• Urban transport and local pollution

3. Transport infrastructure

• Adaptation of infrastructure to climate change
• Infrastructure and disability
• Sustainable and safe roundabouts
• Vehicle parking and sustainability
• Infrastructure and accidents
• Road infrastructure and pedestrian protection
• Road traffic engineering and sustainable transport
• Sustainability issues in road construction and use
• Port strategy and environmental issues
• Risk management and assessment for airports
• Infrastructure and land use
• Financing systems for infrastructure projects
• Energy positive roads
• Management control, costs and transport infrastructure

4. Artificial intelligence and Big data

• Sustainable and intelligent transport systems
• Intelligent transport and green logistics with Big Data
• Logistics, ICT and sustainable freight transport
• Logistics in the age of the fourth industrial revolution
• Intelligent logistics and sustainability
• Connected and autonomous mobility

5. Modelling and optimisation

• Optimisation of logistics and mobility
• Decision support in transport logistics
• Heuristics and meta heuristics applied to transport and logistics
• Simulation of electric and hybrid vehicles in an intelligent network
• Advanced travel demand modelling for sustainable transport
• Design and optimisation of logistics networks

6. Transport of goods

• Sustainable logistics for the retail sector
• Purchasing and supply management
• Freight transport and accidents
• Maritime transport and exogenous species
• Efficient and sustainable management of heavy goods vehicles on roads and motorways
• Environmentally friendly and sustainable long-distance road freight transport
• Place and role of personnel in freight transport systems
• Logistics and transport of dangerous goods
• Freight transport and mass distribution
• CSR in freight transport
• Green Warehousing and Warehouses

7. Environmental and social impacts of transport

• Greenhouse gas emissions and transport
• Noise pollution
• Transport waste and environmental impact
• Social costs of transport
• Risk management in transport
• Sustainable mobility and urban planning
• Sustainable mobility is energy issues

8. Vehicle energy

• Innovation in logistics, vehicles, energy and infrastructure
• Ecological footprint of the transport production industry
• Electric vehicles and ecological issues
• Bicycles: vehicles, infrastructure and users for sustainable mobility
• Sustainable mobility: shared bikes
• Design, simulation and management of bicycle sharing systems
• Comparative approach to bicycle mobility in developed countries
• Renewable energy, infrastructure, equipment and vehicle

9. Public transport

• Emerging public transport systems
• Public transport and accidents
• Public transport management systems from an ecological perspective
• Social conditions of personnel in public transport
• Public transport operating systems
• Financing systems for public transport projects
• Marketing of public transport projects
• Tourist transport and sustainable development

10. Logistics and sustainable development

• Logistics and territory
• Logistics and ecology
• Green logistics
• Logistics and society
• Reverse logistics

11. Logistics & Organisation

• The logistics function in the organisation
• Logistics and strategic management
• Innovation & Logistics
• Management of functional interfaces
• Industrial and logistics engineering
• Logistics and financial performance
• Human resources logistics
• Production systems logistics
• Management control applied to logistics

12. Supply Chain Management (SCM)

• SCM issues and supplier performance
• Sustainable and intelligent purchasing practices.
• Cultural aspects and dimensions in SCM
• Management of organisational interfaces
• Alliances, partnerships and networking
• PLM / SCM interdependence
• Mutualisation of management and sharing in SC
• Traceability in SC between consumer and environmental protection
• SCM and staff situation between local jurisdiction and globalisation

13. Hospital logistics

• Staff conditions in hospitals
• Treatment of hospital waste
• GHG emissions from hospital equipment and vehicles
• Hospital activity and pollution
• Reception conditions between quality of service and staff conditions
• Emergency management and planning
• Hospital logistics and large numbers of patients
• Hospital logistics and natural disasters

14. Logistical processes

• Scope and limits of logistics
• Information systems (ERP, SAP, EDI)
• Comparative approaches (sectors, SMEs…)
• Performance of logistics systems
• Operations planning
• Inventory management and procurement
• Warehousing and distribution centers

15. Supply Chain Management and resilience