https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/verolog-2026/
The School of Management looks forward to welcoming academics and industry practitioners at all stages of their career to the 10th annual meeting of the EURO working group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization (VeRoLog).
This conference offers a forum to present and discuss developments in the field.
In addition to the main conference, we will be hosting a PhD school on Friday 3, Saturday 4 and Monday 6 July.
Abstracts can be submitted starting from the 16th of December 2025 on the VeRoLog website.
Submissions should include a title, an abstract (maximum 300 words), the names of the authors (including the presenting author) and their affiliations. Each participant can present only one abstract contribution during the event.
The abstract submission should also indicate the relevant contents from, but not limited to, the following categories:
The VeRoLog Doctoral Dissertation Prize is issued by the VeRoLog and is awarded at the conference.
The purpose of the prize is to distinguish an outstanding PhD thesis on Operational Research methods applied to Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization. All the information can be found on this webpage.
The VeRoLog Conference invites participants to submit a full-length article to the OMEGA VeRoLog Special Issue. The Special Issue will be edited by Dr. Roberto Roberti and Dr. Diego Cattaruzza. The deadline for manuscript submission is 30 September 2026. Further information is available at the Omega webpage.
Our plenary talks will be given by:
We will also have a conference warm-up session on Monday afternoon with Professor Anand Subramanian. This session will be both part of the conference and the PhD school.
Information and links will be available on this webpage once registration opens.
The fees for the conference will be as follows:
Doctoral Colloquium
Main Conference
Excursion
The goal of this pre-conference workshop is to provide PhD students and post-docs interested in applying and developing operations research and mathematical optimization techniques to solve decision-making problems arising in different applications (such as vehicle routing, logistics, supply chain management, transportation, etc.) with the basics of some key methodologies.
Metaheuristic Algorithms for Routing and Logistics
Further information will be available shortly.