Franz Rothlauf and Andreas Fink from the Helmut Schmidt-University Hamburg organized the 3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics. The workshop took place from 15 to 17 April 2009 in Tübingen (Germany) and was part of Evo*, the world premium event on the application of evolutionary computation. Acceptance rate of the workshop was 54% and accepted papers are published in the Springer LNCS series.