Laporte, Gilbert

Gilbert Laporte is Professor of Operations Research at HEC Montreal and holds the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management. He has been editor of Transportation Science, Computers and Operations Research, and INFOR. He has authored or coauthored fifteen books and more than 450 scientific articles in combinatorial optimization, mostly in the areas of vehicle routing, location, and timetabling. He has received many scientific awards, including the Pergamon Prize in 1987, the 1994 Merit Award of the Canadian Operational Research Society, and the CORS Practice Prize on three occasions. He