Bike sharing systems offer a mobility service whereby public bicycles, located at different stations across an urban area, are available for shared use. These systems contribute towards obtaining a more sustainable mobility and decreasing traffic and pollution caused by car transportation. Since...

This paper introduces a new problem to the OR community that combines traditional tramp shipping with a vendor managed inventory (VMI) service. Such a service may replace the more traditional contract of affreightment (COA) which for decades has been the standard agreement between a tramp...

We propose a new approach to formulating the Scheduled Service Network Design Problem (SSNDP) that involves modeling with enumerated consolidations of shipments routed on the physical network. This is in contrast to the classical approach of capturing the synchronization of vehicles and...

This work proposes a variation of the location-routing problem (LRP), a problem that interconnects two well-known N P-hard optimisation problems: the vehicle routing problem (VRP) and facility location problem (FLP). There are many mathematical formulations and solution methods for a number of...