{"163221":{"#nid":"163221","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bartholdi Wins 2012 TSL Best Paper Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Bartholdi, Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management in the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering (ISyE), along with Don Eisenstein (MS IE 1983, PhD IE 1992) professor at the University of Chicago, have been awarded the 2012 TSL Best Paper Prize for their paper, \u0022A self-coordinating bus route to avoid bus bunching.\u0022\u0026nbsp; The two were recognized at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting which was held in Phoenix, AZ October 14-17.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe TSL Best Paper Award is given every year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and must present innovative approaches for solving complex problems in transportation and\/or logistics, with an emphasis on operations research and quantitative methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBartholdi, also the research director for The Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) at Georgia Tech, teaches supply chain issues, primarily warehousing, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and in SCL\u0027s professional education program. His research centers on problems in warehousing and distribution, but he reserves some time to pursue wider-ranging interests, including mechanics, politics, computer science, geography, and biology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBartholdi graduated in 1968 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in mathematics from the University of Florida and then served two tours of duty in Southeast Asia as a paratrooper in a Naval Special Warfare unit. He returned to the University of Florida to complete the Ph.D. program in operations research in 1977 and later served on the faculties at the University of Michigan, the Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering, and the National University of Singapore. Bartholdi was named a \u0022Presidential Young Investigator\u0022 by the National Science Foundation for 1984-1989. His research work has been supported by the Defense Logistics Agency, the Office of Naval Research, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, among others.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Bartholdi, Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management, along with Don Eisenstein (MS IE 1983, PhD IE 1992), have been awarded the 2012 TSL Best Paper Prize for their paper, \u0022A self-coordinating bus route to avoid bus bunching.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-10-18 09:26:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:58","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49791":{"id":"49791","type":"image","title":"John J. Bartholdi, III","body":null,"created":"1449175373","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:53","changed":"1475894453","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:53","alt":"John J. Bartholdi, III","file":{"fid":"127039","name":"txo74221.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/txo74221_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/txo74221_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":39415,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/txo74221_0.jpg?itok=wIlED7lt"}}},"media_ids":["49791"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"46901","name":"Don Eisenstein"},{"id":"6204","name":"INFORMS"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"2380","name":"John Bartholdi"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}