Scope and Topics Target audience th 5 Interdisciplinary The focus of the conference is on (but not limited to) the The conference addresses an audience concerned with the following interdisciplinary topics related to Production, disciplines production, logistics and traffic, including Conference on Production, Logistics and Traffic: spatial and transport planning, which is interested in discussing scientific and application-oriented approaches. Logistics and Traffic (ICPLT) • Intermodal transport and logistics hubs Practitioners, politicians, representatives of public • Supply chain and supply network management authorities and researchers from production, logistics and • Production management traffic are invited to benefit from the conference as a • Logistics systems platform for knowledge-exchange and transfer. UPDATE! • Intralogistics and warehousing Virtual Conference • Transport policy and governance principles During the two-day Virtual Conference, distinguished • Freight transport demand modelling/management speakers will address selected interdisciplinary topics in • Traffic control and management key notes. Designated innovative research and practice March 17th – 18th, 2021 • Humanitarian logistics approaches will be presented in 30-minute talks during Darmstadt, Germany parallel sessions. In addition, the best contributions to the • Commercial transport conference will be awarded. Each contribution should address one or more of the following trends or key aspects currently affecting the As the conference is online only, we will provide activities fields of Production, Logistics and Traffic: to foster social interaction and networking. • Challenges regarding the supply of rural and urban Contact areas Call for Papers • Consideration of geopolitical, spatial, environmental, 5th Interdisciplinary Conference or health impacts on Production, Logistics and Traffic (ICPLT) • Incorporate human and ethical factors • Enhancement of social or ecological sustainability Technische Universität Darmstadt • Influences of automatization and standardization Chair of Management and Logistics Michael Gleser • Digitalization, Integration of data and IT-Systems Hochschulstraße 1 • Benefits of predictive analytics and Big Data 64289 Darmstadt, Germany • Innovation in technology and processes • Mitigation of risks and uncertainty Tel: +49 (0) 6151 16-24436 • Balancing robustness and flexibility Fax: +49 (0) 6151 16-24444 • Design of new measures, instruments and strategies E-Mail: [email protected] • Enablement of lean processes and structures Web: www.icplt.org • Integration of different modelling approaches • Handling of ecological or environmental disasters Institute of Transport Logistics • Improve decision making and decision support Technische Universität Dortmund Leonhard-Euler-Straße 2 44227 Dortmund, Germany Call for Papers Registration and Fees Chairmen of Scientific Committee We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for this Online registration for the 5th ICPLT is possible from Prof. Dr. Ralf Elbert (Chair), TU Darmstadt conference jointly hosted by TU Darmstadt and TU August 1st, 2020 up to March 17th, 2021 through our Chair of Management and Logistics Dortmund. The 5th ICPLT will be held as a Virtual website. Participation at ICPLT 2021 will be offered free Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Boltze (Co-Chair), TU Darmstadt Conference. The conference will start at 10 a.m. on of charge! Online registration is required nonetheless Chair of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering th Wednesday March 17 2021 and will continue until 5 to allow us for adjustment of capacities. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Clausen (Co-Chair), TU Dortmund p.m. March 18th 2021 on Thursday. Institute of Transport Logistics Social / Evening program Scientific Committee Senior scientists, PhD students and experts in the fields of Production, Logistics and Traffic are invited to submit i.a.: Prof. Dr. Mats Abrahamsson, Linköping University | Prof. Dr. their contributions. Therefore, contributors are requested ICPLT 2021 will for the first time be held as an online Tobias Bernecker, Hochschule Heilbronn | Prof. Dr. Christoph Bode, st to submit an extended abstract between August 1 , 2020 conference. To keep the spirit of the last years in University of Mannheim | Prof. Dr. Dragan Cisic, University of Rijeka and October 31st, 2020. These extended abstracts should | Prof. Dr. Laetitia Dablanc, University of Paris-Est | Prof. Dr. academic and networking, we plan on various social Alexander Eisenkopf, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen | Prof. Dr. contain no more than 1500 words. The extended events to create a fun and inclusive experience. Nathalie Fabbe-Costes, Aix-Marseille Université | Prof. Dr. Hanno abstracts will be reviewed by a Scientific Committee by Friedrich, Kühne Logistics University Hamburg | Prof. Dr. Roel means of a single-blind procedure until January 15th, Gevaers, University Antwerp | Prof. Dr. Christoph Glock, Technische As we are reorganizing the conference, stay updated at Universität Darmstadt | Jun.-Prof. Dr. Eric Grosse, Universität des 2021. We plan to inform the authors of accepted our main website: www.icplt.org Saarlands | Prof. Dr. Michael Henke, Technische Universität contributions by January 31st, 2021 and conference Dortmund | Prof. Dr. Danuta Kisperska-Moron, University of registration will be possible. The language of the abstracts Economics in Katowice | Prof. Dr. René De Koster, Erasmus University Rotterdam | Prof. Dr. Rudolph Large, University of has to be English. Stuttgart | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bert Leerkamp, University of Wuppertal | Prof. Dr. Michael Lehmann, Fachhochschule Erfurt| Prof. Dr. Gernot Templates and guidelines for submitting extended Liedtke, German Aerospace Center Berlin | Prof. Dr. Alan McKinnon, Kühne Logistics University Hamburg |Prof. Dr. Herbert abstracts will be available on the conference website Meyr, University of Hohenheim | Prof. Dr. Stefan Minner, www.icplt.org. Technische Universität München | Prof. Dr. Andreas Norrman, LUND University | Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Pfohl, Technische Universität Darmstadt | Prof. Dr. Stefan Seuring, University of Kassel The selected extended abstracts will be made available for | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölzle, University St. Gallen | Prof. Dr. Frank all attendees online after the conference. We welcome Straube, Technische Universität Berlin | Prof. Dr. Lóránt Tavasszy, submissions from advanced experts in this field but at the Delft University of Technology | Prof. Dr. Boris Varlamov, ITMO same time encourage PhD students to contribute to a University Saint Petersburg | Prof. Dr. Gyula Vastag, Corvinus University of Budapest | Inge Vierth, VTI Stockholm | Prof. Dr. successful conference. Jaroslaw Witkowski, Wroclaw University of Economics We are looking forward to receiving your outstanding abstract and having the opportunity to welcome you to ICPLT 2021! .