FreighTSim 2026 programme

Programme for the 4th International Symposium on Multi-Agent Freight Transport Simulation (FreighTSim), which will take place on 9th September 2026 in Berlin, Germany.

Time Programme point
9:15 Registration / Welcome coffee
9:45 Welcome / Opening
Gernot Liedtke
10:00 Keynote: Making sense of sensitive data: beyond anonymisation and obfuscation
Johan W. Joubert (KU Leuven)
10:45 Activity-based Freight Scheduling Problem for Generating Freight Plans
Denissa Purba (BOKU Wien), Wanrong Hu (BOKU Wien), Constantinos Antoniou (TU Munich), Yusak Susilo (BOKU Wien)
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Development and Application of a Small-Scale Commercial Traffic Model for a Metropolitan Region
Tilman Mateis (DLR)
12:00 A Comprehensive Agent-Based Commercial Transport Model for Assessing Decarbonization Pathways and Carbon Pricing Policies
Ricardo Ewert, Kai Nagel (TU Berlin)
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Opening afternoon session
Kai Nagel
13:45 Reactions to Zero-Emission and Safety Zone Restrictions in Urban Food Retail Logistics
Kai Martins-Turner (DLR, TU Berlin), Kai Nagel (TU Berlin)
14:15 Quantum Computing for Controlling and Optimizing Intermodal Transport Chains
Theresa-Maria Mersini, Ibraheem Adenrian, Marcel Schindler, Alessandro Tarantola (DLR)
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Where do spontaneous freight collaborations emerge? Insights from behavioural and spatial heterogeneity perspectives.
Xander Peng, Johan W. Joubert (KU Leuven)
15:30 Assessing Fast Transshipment in Combined Transport for Courier, Express, and Parcel Logistics by means of a Multi-Agent Transport Simulation
Ibraheem O. Adeniran, Aayush Khatiwada, Carina Kehrt (DLR)
16:00 Closing
Gernot Liedtke, Kai Nagel
16:30 End of FreighTSim 2026

Last updated: 31.08.2026

Further Information: https://matsim.org/conferences/freightsim2026/
Email: freightsim@dlr.de