Studies on mechanism design mostly focus on a single market where sellers and buyers trade. This paper examines the problem of mechanism design for capacity allocation in two connected markets where a supplier allocates products to a set of retailers and the retailers resale the products to...

This thesis investigates the problem of market mechanism design for supply chain management and e-marketplace development. Instead of viewing a market as an isolated entity, we consider each market to be a part of a supply chain and study the effects of interactions between different markets in...

In this paper, we study a two-echelon distribution system in which multiple products are jointly replenished at each stocking location and the inventory of each product at each location is controlled by an (s, S) policy. The transportation capacity in volume of products for each joint...

Over the past 10 years, operating expenses for Demand Responsive Transit have more than doubled as demand for this mandated service has expanded. Many advanced technologies and management practices have been proposed and implemented to improve the efficiency of the service; but, evidence for the...

This report describes a simulation model developed to evaluate the impact of using Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for bus tracking, on controlling buses in wide-area transit networks. Control strategies with ITS will be compared against those...

This paper evaluates dispatching rules at timed transfer transit terminals. The evaluation focuses on total passenger delay and the number of passengers missing their connections. Analytical and simulation models are developed to evaluate the benefit of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)...

Recently, bus transit service providers have begun to adopt Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Mobile Data Terminals. These systems taken together have the potential to reduce the cost of providing transportation services through...

Due to the uncertain nature of the traffic system, it is not trivial for delivery companies to reliably satisfy customers' time windows. To guarantee the reliability of the pickup and delivery service under stochastic and time-dependent travel times, we consider a pickup and delivery problem...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great disruption to the service sector, which has in turn adapted by implementing measures that reduce physical distancing among employees and users; examples include home-office work and the setting of occupancy restrictions at indoor locations. The design of...