6 papers
Dynamic Dispatching for Time-Sensitive Blood Sample Collection and Delivery
Arash Dehghan, Aliaa Alnaggar, Mucahit Cevik +1
Hospitals and diagnostic laboratories rely on couriers to collect blood samples from geographically dispersed collection centres and deliver them for analysis before their short vi…
Evacuation Planning for Disaster Preparedness: An Adaptive Robust Optimization Approach
Jaehyuk Kim, Merve Bodur, Maria E. Mayorga +1
Evacuation planning for disaster preparedness requires making critical decisions under uncertainty before the number and spatial distribution of evacuees are known, including shelt…
Approximate Dynamic Programming for Real-time Assignment of Extraboard Transit Operators
Jilin Song, Amer Shalaby, Merve Bodur
This study investigates real-time assignment decisions for extraboard transit operators, who are responsible for covering open work due to unexpected events such as driver absentee…
Fairness-aware Strategic Design of Station-based Electric Car-Sharing Systems
Jue Zhou, Zoha Sherkat-Masoumi, Merve Bodur
Electric car-sharing systems are pivotal for sustainable urban mobility, but their strategic design is complicated by operational constraints, particularly those arising from the c…
Joint Matching and Pricing for Crowd-shipping with In-store Customers
Arash Dehghan, Mucahit Cevik, Merve Bodur +1
This paper examines the use of in-store customers as delivery couriers in a centralized crowd-shipping system, targeting the growing need for efficient last-mile delivery in urban…
Tightening Quadratic Convex Relaxations for the AC Optimal Transmission Switching Problem
Cheng Guo, Harsha Nagarajan, Merve Bodur
The Alternating Current Optimal Transmission Switching (ACOTS) problem incorporates line switching decisions into the AC Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) framework, offering well-known b…