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A prescriptive analytics framework for efficient E-commerce order delivery
(Elsevier, 2021-04-30)
Achieving timely last-mile order delivery is often the most challenging part of an e-commerce order fulfillment. Effective management of last-mile operations can result in significant cost savings and lead to increased ...
Modelling driver's reactive strategies in e-hailing platforms: an agent-based simulation model and an approximate analytical model
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-10-26)
For an e-hailing taxi operation, we analyse a driver's profit-maximising reactive strategy (to either accept or refuse a ride request) in response to the ride request broadcast by the platform. We analyse four operating ...
Modeling landside container terminal queues: Exact analysis and approximations
(Elsevier, 2022-06-07)
With the growth of ocean transport and with increasing vessel sizes, managing congestion at the landside of container terminals has become a major challenge. The landside of a sea terminal handles containers that arrive ...
Dynamic vehicle allocation policies for shared autonomous electric fleets
(INFORMS, 2022-03-31)
In the future, vehicle sharing platforms for passenger transport will be unmanned, autonomous, and electric. These platforms must decide which vehicle should
pick up which type of customer based on the vehicle’s battery ...
Loading and unloading trains at the landside of container terminals
(Springer, 2022-02-25)
We study the operational problem of loading and unloading trains at a container terminal. Trains are served by two gantry cranes which spread over multiple trains on parallel tracks at the terminal landside. Multiple ...
How Data-Driven Decisions Help Restaurants Stay Competitive
(Harvard Business School Publishing Division, 2023-10-03)
Integrated inventory replenishment and online demand allocation decisions for an omnichannel retailer with ship-from-store strategy
(Elsevier, 2024-02-28)
Retailing has changed dramatically from single-channel brick-and-mortar stores to multi-channel and omnichannel retailers over the last few decades. Omnichannel retailers employ different strategies to integrate
online ...