In several transportation systems, vehicles can choose where to meet customers rather than stopping in fixed locations. This added flexibility, however, requires coordination between vehicles and customers that adds complexity to routing operations. This paper develops scalable algorithms to...

In the liner shipping industry, if a shipper wants to transport its cargo by container ships, it first needs to contact a carrier to book container slots based on the estimated transportation demand. However, one problem in the booking process is that the actual demand is uncertain, resulting in...

In the global maritime transportation network, the on-time performance of cargo transportation depends largely on the service capacity and accessibility of seaports. When opportunities for infrastructure expansions are not available, seaport congestion mitigation may require effective scheduling...

In the busiest seaports, vessel traffic and vessel pilotage management plays a crucial role in congestion mitigation. The management of vessel traffic and vessel pilotage involves scheduling the vessels for sailing into and out of a seaport and scheduling the pilots for navigating the vessels in...

To promote new technology adoption, governments around the world are contemplating different ideas to develop effective subsidy policies. At the new technology infrastructure investment stage, governments can use investment subsidy to reduce the new technology firms' investment cost; at the...