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Modelling and solving a real-world truck-trailer scheduling problem in container transportation with separate moving objects

Container transportation is pivotal in global supply chains, facilitating the exchange of goods between companies across different countries. Given the exceedingly high operational costs of transporting containers, optimizing itinerary schedules can yield ...

New Delhi2024

Optimal control of the spatial allocation of COVID-19 vaccines: Italy as a case study

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Damiano Pasetto, Joseph Chadi Benoit Lemaitre, Mario Zanon, Marino Gatto

While campaigns of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 are underway across the world, communities face the challenge of a fair and effective distribution of a limited supply of doses. Current vaccine allocation strategies are based on criteria such as age or ri ...

2022

A design proposal for the European DEMO superconducting bus bars and current leads

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Rainer Wesche, Roberto Guarino

The integration of the feeder system in a tokamak involves complex engineering, manufacturing and logistics issues. Therefore, within the pre-conceptual design activities of the European DEMO fusion reactor, it is important to provide a preliminary sizing ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Network design optimization of waste management systems: the case of plastics

François Maréchal

Failure in appropriately managing complex municipal solid waste systems in general and waste plastics in particular negatively affects public health and environment. A decision-making tool incorporating concepts of logistics and supply chain, considering d ...

Elsevier2021

Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery

Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

The popularity of delivery drones is constantly increasing due to their ability to deliver packages more rapidly and economically than current transportation methods. Consequently, drones have been employed by logistics companies for delivering payloads to ...

EPFL2020

Last-Centimeter Personal Drone Delivery: Field Deployment and User Interaction

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

Drones are rapidly becoming an affordable and often faster solution for parcel delivery than terrestrial vehicles. Existing transportation drones and software infrastructures are mostly designed by logistics companies for trained users and dedicated infras ...

2018

Mitigating Crime Risks in the International Logistics Network

Toni Antero Männistö

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 raised major concerns about the vulnerability of global transportation systems to transnational crime and terrorism. Although the attacks occurred in the context of passenger transport, they spurred unprecedented ...

EPFL2015

Taste heterogeneity and latent preferences in the choice behaviour of freight transport operators

Michel Bierlaire

In this paper we show that individual attitudes of road carriers and their latent preferences toward specific freight service attributes do play a role in determining their mode choices. Specifically, we contribute to the empirical literature on freight ag ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

Future development of e-Customs: a survey study with Swiss companies

Toni Antero Männistö

This survey paper explores the current state of play of Swiss cross-border trade and logistics operations and highlights areas for future developments. In particular, the survey aims: (1) To identify how customs declarations are filed, (2) To understand th ...

2012

Centralized Versus Decentralized Control - A Solvable Stylized Model in Transportation

Olivier Gallay

To analyze the potential outcomes resulting from interaction between autonomous decision-making "smart parts" in logistics networks, we propose here an exactly solvable stylized model that is able to quantify how much the dynamics can be enhanced by (fully ...

2010

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