Publisher Summary Intermodal transportation may be defined as the transportation of a
person or a load from its origin to its destination by a sequence of at least two transportation …

Optimal decision-making in a process industry is fundamental in order to guarantee
optimality of operations and increase profits and performance of a company. Decision …

Logistics planning in emergency situations involves dispatching commodities (eg, medical
materials and personnel, specialised rescue equipment and rescue teams, food, etc.) to …

Enterprise‐wide optimization (EWO) is a new emerging area that lies at the interface of
chemical engineering and operations research, and has become a major goal in the …

Large-scale sudden natural disasters will lead to a large number of casualties and economic
losses. The allocation of emergency materials is of vital significance for saving lives and …

Freight transportation is a vital component of the economy. It supports production, trade, and
consumption activities by ensuring the efficient movement and timely availability of raw …

Following from part I, which presents a retrospective on optimization, we focus here on areas
that are recent active research topics and are likely to strongly influence the future of …

Efficient and effective allocation of emergency resources is a premise for in-time maritime
search and rescue (MSAR). In order to improve the allocation efficiency of maritime …

One of the challenging problems for surface mining operation optimization is choosing the
optimal truck and loader fleet. We refer to this problem as the equipment selection problem …

Operations research is becoming increasingly prevalent in the natural resource sector,
specifically in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and mining. While there are similar research …