Operational Research: methods and applications

F Petropoulos, G Laporte, E Aktas… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Optimizing the changing locations of mobile parcel lockers in last-mile distribution

S Schwerdfeger, N Boysen - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
To reduce congestion, environmental damage, and negative health impact in large urban
areas plenty of novel concepts for last-mile distribution have been innovated in the recent …

Service network design with mixed autonomous fleets

YO Scherr, BAN Saavedra, M Hewitt… - … Research Part E …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a service network design problem for the tactical planning of parcel delivery
with autonomous vehicles in SAE level 4. We consider a heterogeneous infrastructure …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic discretization discovery for the service network design problem with mixed autonomous fleets

YO Scherr, M Hewitt, BAN Saavedra… - … Research Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
We consider a service network design problem for the tactical planning of parcel delivery in
a city logistics setting. A logistics service provider seeks a repeatable plan to transport …

The flexible scheduled service network design problem

M Hewitt - Transportation Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
The scheduled service network design problem (SSNDP) can support planning the
transportation operations of consolidation carriers given shipment-level service …

The transit time constrained fixed charge multi-commodity network design problem

E Hellsten, DF Koza, I Contreras, JF Cordeau… - Computers & Operations …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper introduces the transit time constrained fixed charge multi-commodity network
design problem. Transit times are origin-to-destination time limits for the commodities, which …

[HTML][HTML] The service network design problem with fleet and emissions management

C Truden, M Hewitt - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract We propose the Service Network Design Problem with Fleet and Emissions
Management (SND-FEM). This problem considers fleet management decisions regarding …

Lead-time-constrained middle-mile consolidation network design with fixed origins and destinations

LM Greening, M Dahan, AL Erera - Transportation Research Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many large e-commerce retailers move sufficient freight volumes to operate private middle-
mile consolidation networks for order fulfillment, transporting customer shipments from …

Enhanced dynamic discretization discovery for the continuous time load plan design problem

M Hewitt - Transportation science, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
For less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation carriers, as shipment sizes are small
relative to trailer capacity, profitability is driven by the ability to load trailers with shipments …

A time-expanded network reduction matheuristic for the logistics service network design problem

S Belieres, M Hewitt, N Jozefowiez, F Semet - Transportation Research Part …, 2021 - Elsevier
Planning cost-effective logistics operations involve the integration of multiple decision-
making levels. In the domain of supply chain management, the last decades have seen the …