Over the past two decades, there has been explosive growth in the application of robust
optimization in operations management (robust OM), fueled by both significant advances in …

Emergency services worldwide face increasing cost pressure that potentially limits their
existing resources. In many countries, emergency services also face the issues of staff …

A bike-sharing system is a shared mobility mechanism that provides an alternative
transportation mode for short trips with almost no added travel speed loss. However, this …

A new generation of healthcare operations management (HOM) scholars is studying timely
healthcare topics (eg, organization design, design of delivery, and organ transplantation) …

Problem definition: Our objective is to design a defibrillator-enabled drone network that
augments the existing emergency medical services (EMS) system to rapidly respond to out …

Motivated by a leading taxi operator in Singapore, we consider the idle vehicle pre‐
allocation problem with uncertain demands and other uncertain covariate information such …

New technologies and innovative business models are leading to connected, shared,
autonomous, and electric solutions for the tomorrow of urban transport and logistics (UTL) …

This paper focuses on an emergency rescue network design problem in response to
disasters under uncertainty. Considering the limited distribution information of the uncertain …

Problem definition: The Singapore government has recently proposed the concept of
“Locker Alliance”(LA), an interoperable network of public lockers in residential areas and hot …

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a significant public health issue, and treatment, namely,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation, is very time sensitive. Public access …