2026 Gilbert Laporte: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	137	7	6	1	1	743	76003
Engineering and Technology	139	16	16	1	1	782	78536

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Canada Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Mathematics in Canada Leader Award
2021 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
2019 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For domain-defining contributions to the theory and practice of vehicle routing, facility location, and distribution management.
2018 - Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Quebec
2005 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Overview

Gilbert Laporte is affiliated with HEC Montréal in Canada and has a substantial body of work in the field of engineering, with a focus on industrial and manufacturing engineering, automotive engineering, building and construction, organizational behavior and human resource management, and environmental engineering.

Their research spans several main topics, including:

Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Maritime Ports and Logistics
Facility Location and Emergency Management
Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency
Optimization and Packing Problems

Gilbert Laporte's recent publications include:

"Drone-aided routing: A literature review" (2020), published in Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
"A review of vehicle routing with simultaneous pickup and delivery" (2020), published in Computers & Operations Research
"A simulation-based heuristic for the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows and stochastic waiting times at recharging stations" (2020), published in Computers & Operations Research
"Green technology adoption for fleet deployment in a shipping network" (2020), published in Transportation Research Part B Methodological
"Emerging approaches applied to maritime transport research: Past and future" (2021), published in Communications in Transportation Research

The venues where Gilbert Laporte frequently publishes include:

Computers & Operations Research
European Journal of Operational Research
Transportation Research Part B Methodological
Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
Journal of the Operational Research Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Laporte include:

Shuaian Wang
Lu Zhen
Okan Arslan
Maria Battarra
Güneş Erdoğan

Throughout their career, Gilbert Laporte has received several recognitions, including:

Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council (2021)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2019), for domain-defining contributions to the theory and practice of vehicle routing, facility location, and distribution management
Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Quebec (2018)
Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) (2005)

Best Publications

The vehicle routing problem: An overview of exact and approximate algorithms

Gilbert Laporte

2827
Citations
A tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem

Michel Gendreau;Alain Hertz;Gilbert Laporte

1969
Citations
The Pollution-Routing Problem

Tolga Bektaş;Gilbert Laporte

1399
Citations
The traveling salesman problem: An overview of exact and approximate algorithms

Gilbert Laporte

1366
Citations
Fifty Years of Vehicle Routing

Gilbert Laporte

1325
Citations
A unified tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems with time windows

Jean-François Cordeau;Gilbert Laporte;Anne Mercier

1283
Citations
A tabu search heuristic for periodic and multi-depot vehicle routing problems

Jean-François Cordeau;Michel Gendreau;Gilbert Laporte

1252
Citations
Classical and modern heuristics for the vehicle routing problem

Gilbert Laporte;Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin;Frédéric Semet

1170
Citations
Metaheuristics: A bibliography

Ibrahim H. Osman;Gilbert Laporte

1165
Citations
The dial-a-ride problem: models and algorithms

Jean-François Cordeau;Gilbert Laporte

1163
Citations
Ambulance location and relocation models

Luce Brotcorne;Gilbert Laporte;Gilbert Laporte;Frédéric Semet;Frédéric Semet

1132
Citations
The integer L-shaped method for stochastic integer programs with complete recourse

Gilbert Laporte;François V. Louveaux

1018
Citations
A guide to vehicle routing heuristics

Jean-François Cordeau;Michel Gendreau;Gilbert Laporte;Jean-Yves Potvin

1003
Citations
Static pickup and delivery problems: a classification scheme and survey

Gerardo Berbeglia;Jean-Françoise Cordeau;Irina Gribkovskaia;Gilbert Laporte

997
Citations
Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control

Gianpaolo Ghiani;Gilbert Laporte;Roberto Musmanno

963
Citations
STOCHASTIC VEHICLE ROUTING.

Michel Gendreau;Gilbert Laporte;Gilbert Laporte;René Séguin;René Séguin

958
Citations
Planning models for freight transportation

Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Gilbert Laporte;Gilbert Laporte

921
Citations
A tabu search heuristic for the static multi-vehicle dial-a-ride problem

Jean-François Cordeau;Gilbert Laporte

917
Citations
Dynamic pickup and delivery problems

Gerardo Berbeglia;Jean-François Cordeau;Gilbert Laporte

900
Citations
A review of recent research on green road freight transportation

Emrah Demir;Tolga Bektaş;Gilbert Laporte

884
Citations
New insertion and postoptimization procedures for the traveling salesman problem

Michel Gendreau;Alain Hertz;Gilbert Laporte

865
Citations
An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the Pollution-Routing Problem

Emrah Demir;Tolga Bektaş;Gilbert Laporte

814
Citations
A dynamic model and parallel tabu search heuristic for real-time ambulance relocation

Michel Gendreau;Gilbert Laporte;Gilbert Laporte;Frédéric Semet;Frédéric Semet

646
Citations
Fleet management and logistics

Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Gilbert Laporte

631
Citations
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Travel Times

Gilbert Laporte;François V. Louveaux;Hélène Mercure

630
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-François Cordeau HEC Montréal

Michel Gendreau Polytechnique Montréal

Frédéric Semet University of Lille

Gianpaolo Ghiani University of Salento

Tolga Bektaş University of Liverpool

Leandro C. Coelho Université Laval

Martine Labbé Université Libre de Bruxelles

Jacques Renaud Université Laval

Alain Hertz Polytechnique Montréal

François Soumis Polytechnique Montréal

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