Replacing equipment is an important decision that nearly all entities must face, generally
motivated by rising operating and maintenance costs of current assets or the technological …

The objective of infrastructure management is to provide optimal maintenance, rehabilitation
and replacement (MR&R) policies for a system of facilities over a planning horizon. While …

The accelerated pace of technological change has led to rapid obsolescence of productive
capacity in electronics and other industries. Managers must consider the impact of future …

We study the problem of scheduling maintenance services. Given is a set of m machines
and integral cost-coefficients ai and bi for each machine i (1⩽ i⩽ m). Time is discretized into …

Businesses frequently have to decide which of their existing equipment to replace, taking
into account future changes in capacity requirements. The significance of this decision …

Contrary to serial replacement, parallel replacement problems require a decision maker to
evaluate a portfolio of replacement decisions in each time period because of economic …

This paper addresses a fleet-sizing problem in the context of the truck-rental industry.
Specifically, trucks that vary in capacity and age are utilized over space and time to meet …

This paper addresses the fleet renewal problem and particularly the treatment of uncertainty
in the maritime case. A stochastic programming model for the maritime fleet renewal …

This paper addresses both the modeling and the resolution of the replacement problem for a
population of machines. The main objective is the computation of a minimum cost …

We provide a decision model for La Poste, the French national postal operator, to address its
adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) for mail and parcel distribution. Two competing …