An article co-authored by Professors Okan Arslan, Ola Jabali (DEIB) and Gilbert Laporte received an honourable mention in the awarding of the Best Paper of the Year Award by the international association INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL). This study, titled Exact Solution of the Evasive Flow Capturing Problem presents an innovative solution to a complex problem of intercepting illegal vehicles in a transportation network.

It was first published in November 2018 in the journal Operations Research, which is part of the Financial Times list (FT50) of the 50 scientific journals with the most impact in the business sector. Ola Jabali is an Assistant Professor in the operations research and discrete optimization group of DEIB (Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria) at Politecnico di Milano. She is also an Affiliated Professor in the Department of Logistics and Operations Management at HEC Montréal.