Battery electric buses (BEBs) are rapidly being embraced by public transit agencies due to their sustainable and economic benefits. At this stage, the insufficient number of charging piles and the unreasonable allocation of charging resources are highlighted，which seriously affect the safety...

Battery electric buses (BEBs) are rapidly being embraced by public transit agencies due to their sustainable and economic benefits. At present, due to the insufficient number of charging piles and the unreasonable allocation of charging resources, such phenomena as BEBs charging congestion and...

In the econometric analysis of labor market transitions, the data generating process is often specified as a continuous-time semi-Markovian process with a finite state space. With typically short panel data, analysts have long been concerned with the initial conditions problem -- a complication...

Group buying events, in which the unit price for a good or service declines with higher number of customer sign ups, are increasingly becoming popular for retailing goods and services, especially in emerging markets. This paper theoretically and empirically studies consumer equilibrium, pricing,...

Purpose: Medical resources scheduling affects the medical institution’s operation cost, customer satisfaction and medical service quality. Therefore, a lean arrangement of medical resources order and shipment is quite necessary and important. In this paper, we propose two optimal models for...

Purpose: The model proposed in this paper addresses a dynamic optimization model for allocating medical resources in epidemic controlling. Design/methodology/approach: In this work, a three-level and dynamic linear programming model for allocating medical resources based on epidemic diffusion...