Efficient solid waste management is one of the most relevant issues for urban communities. With regard to the service type of household waste collection, there are two approaches in practice: When collecting household waste via a door-to-door system, the collection vehicles drive down all the...

Thetravelling salesman problem (TSP) with the usual closed-loop setup has been extensively considered. However, TSP with open-loop variant arises in several real-time transportationmodels but has been given very limited attention. This paper addresses anopen k-city travelling salesman problem...

Opportunistic Networks (OppNets) is gaining popularity day-by-day due to their various applications in the real-life world. The two major reasons for its popularity are its suitability to be established without any requirement of additional infrastructure and the ability to tolerate long delays...

The article describes the procedure for determining the transportation fee for the transportation of crude oil in a special rolling stock based. This scientific article discusses the organization of the transportation of crude oil along the route: Art. Astana (KTZH) to st. Leipzig. The route...

We study the behavior of strategic customers in an open-routing service network with multiple stations. When a customer enters the network, she is free to choose the sequence of stations that she visits, with the objective of minimizing her expected total system time. We propose a two-station...

The multi-commodity network flow problem (MCNF) consists in routing a set of commodities through a capacitated network at minimum cost and is relevant for routing containers in liner shipping networks. As commodity transit times are often a critical factor, the literature has introduced hard...