Problem definition: Revenue management in railways distinguishes itself from that in traditional sectors such as airline, hotel, and fashion retail, in several important ways: (i) Capacity is substantially more flexible, in the sense that changes to the capacity of a train can often be made...

Limited information about the demand for some of the resources needed to produce goods and services (e.g., incomplete and imperfect bills of materials) forces firms to use heuristics when planning resource capacity. We examine the performance of five heuristics: two drawn from practice, two that...

Problem Definition: Problem Definition: We develop a framework to plan capacity for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) typically consisting of three stages. The problem is to determine the capacity in each stage that efficiently covers possible daily patient demand and to coordinate the three...

We study an infinite-horizon, stochastic, dynamic optimization problem for an on-demand food-delivery platform, with a one-time capacity-investment decision on the number of capacitated drivers to employ at the beginning of the horizon, and real-time order-batching and driver-routing decisions...

While batch processes are ubiquitous across industries, there is little understanding of the determination of the capacity (i.e., the maximum long-term output rate) of such processes. In this paper, we consider processes with collaboration (activities may require multiple resources...