Abstract Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods,
models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This …

City Logistics aims to reduce the nuisances, eg, congestion and the environmental footprint,
associated to the transportation of freight within urban areas, while sustaining the social and …

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has become a cornerstone of operations research.
This is driven by the enhanced efficiency of modern solvers, which can today find globally …

We address the day-ahead scheduling of electricity production units throughout a network
imposing N-1 security constraints, which ensures uneventful operation under any single …

Crowd-shipping is an emergent solution to avoid the negative effects caused by the growing
demand for last-mile delivery services. Previous research has studied crowd-shipping …

We address the tactical-planning problem for an extended two-tiered City Logistics system.
This more realistic problem setting, compared to the literature, integrates inbound and …

We propose a solution method for the large-scale stochastic unit commitment (SUC)
problem with weekly-dispatched energy storage and significant weather-dependent …

This paper considers facility location problems in which a firm entering a market seeks to
open facilities on a subset of candidate locations so as to maximize its expected market …

Metro timetables are usually planned with a top-down approach. After dividing the day into
different periods, the trains are scheduled between the terminals of the line with a fixed …

Abstract End-of-life (EOL) product recycling has received increasing attention because of
potential environmental, social and economic benefits. A well-designed reverse supply …