The EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT) is one of 28 Groups of EURO -The Association of European Operational Research Societies. Its major interest is application of operations research methods in the field of transportation. EWGT concentrates on developing mathematical models, computational algorithms and computer-based tools to solve complex transportation decision problems. EWGT has met on a regular basis since The second chapter of the Conference Proceedings includes 91 papers of

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... 14th EWGT Meeting, entitled: In quest for advanced models, tools and methods for transportation and logistics, held in Poznan, Poland. The papers of this chapter cover a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from up-to-date traffic control and fleet management methods, through novel IT-based travel behavior and driving simulation analyses up to highly advanced, efficient computational procedures and computer-based tools optimizing complex transportation and logistics systems. The EWGT presentations refer to such aspects of transportation and logistics as: safety and security, reliability, quality, environmental friendliness and overall efficiency. They include a variety of operations research, artificial intelligence and decision making methods, including: macro-and micro-simulation, combinatorial optimization, metaheuristics, forecasting methods, agent-based models, neural networks or fuzzy logic algorithms. All papers included in this chapter have been divided into the following 14 streams: EWGT 1 -Design, utilization and maintenance of transportation and logistics infrastructure (4 papers), EWGT 2 -Location problem in transportation and logistics (2 papers), EWGT 3 -Urban transportation and city logistics (8 papers), EWGT 4 -Transportation and logistics processes and operations (4 papers), EWGT 5 -Simulation in transportation and logistics (8 papers), EWGT 6 -Optimization in transportation and logistics (7 papers), EWGT 7 -Traffic management (17 papers), EWGT 8 -Travel behavior (10 papers), EWGT 9 -Travel time analysis (4 papers), EWGT 10 -Driving simulation (4 papers), EWGT 11 -Environmental aspects of transportation and logistics (4