Operational research issues in transport analysis. A selection of the papers presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Italian Operational Research Society (AIRO 2010)

This special issue of the European Transport/Trasporti Europei Journal on “Operational Research issues in transport analysis” publishes a selection of the papers presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Italian Operational Research Society (AIRO 2010) held in Villa San Giovanni, Italy, September 7-10, 2010. The papers are presented within the Workshop of the Euro Working Group on Transportation on “Models and algorithms for transport network management” organized by Maurizio Bielli within the AIRO2010 Conference. The main target of the Workshop was exchange of knowledge and experiences in the field of transportation systems analysis and modeling. The high standards of the conference have been ensured by a wide and competent scientific committee and by a selective review process. The reviewing of the manuscripts submitted for possible publication started in October 2010 with at least 2 reviewers per paper with further revision by the guest editors. The revision and selection process has been completed in December 2011. Among the 7 contributions selected for publication, advances in the state-of-the art related to several fields of transportation systems analysis are illustrated and discussed. We would like to thank the participants to the EWGT Workshop for submitting high quality papers, allowing us to edit this special issue of the European Transport \Trasporti Europei Journal. A special thanks to all the reviewers for the professional work that they carried out.