Purpose: Assembly Line Balancing (ALB) is critical to manufacturing efficiency and productivity. It involves assigning tasks to workstations to optimise performance while satisfying task priority and cycle time constraints. The Simple ALBP (SALBP) is a simplified version of the general problem...

Background: Distribution systems often face the dual challenge of delivering products to customers and retrieving damaged items for repair, especially when the service center is separate from the depot. An optimized solution to this logistics problem produces benefits in terms of costs,...

In this work, we extend the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows on a road network by considering two types of vehicles, large and small, to serve customers. Motivated from city logistics applications, large vehicles are forbidden from the downtown area. Accordingly, goods...

Warehouse layout optimization is critical to inventory and logistics management in organizations. In many instances, limited warehouse space is a constraint and a barrier to expanding operations and increasing demand. We present a multi-step solution using mixed integer programming to improve...

Background: This paper introduces an enhanced multi-period p-mobile hub location model that accounts for critical factors such as service time, flow processing delays, and congestion impacts at capacity-constrained hubs. As (urban) transportation networks evolve, mobile hubs play an increasingly...

Technology is an essential component of every modern society. Furthermore, new technological possibilities play a key role as catalysts and drivers of far-reaching socio-economic change. When seeking to analyze and reconstruct such transformations, such as in the context of case studies, for...

Identifiability of the parameters is an important precondition for consistent estimation of models designed to describe empirical phenomena. Nevertheless, many estimation exercises proceed without a preliminary investigation into the identifiability of its models. As a consequence, the estimates...