Undoubtedly, public spaces can be considered as an essential factor, which could contribute to urban arrangement, create and maintain a strong local center and enhance the quality of superior environment and the sense of citizenship. Moreover, integrity has always been the most basic structural qualities and one of the key principles of cities. Integrated urban spaces exhibit the integrated str...

Service network design is critical to the profitability of express shipment carriers. In this paper, we consider the problem of designing the integrated service network for premium and deferred express shipment delivery. Related existing models adapted to this problem are intractable for realistic problem instances, requiring excessive computer memory and solution times. We extend existing mode...

This paper focuses on two-tier City Logistics systems for advanced management of urban freight activities and, in particular, on the first layer of such systems where freight is moved from distributions centers on the outskirts of the city to satellite platforms’ by urban vehicles, from where it will be distributed to customers by other, dedicated vehicles. We address the issue of planning the ...

Network design problems in transportation and logistics are both complex and largescale—often containing millions, or even billions, of decision variables and tens of thousands of constraints. Finding optimal or near-optimal solutions to large-scale network design problems is challenging, if not impossible. To address this issue, we extend and bring together in a unified setting two complementa...

complies with the regulations of the University and meets the acceptable standards with respect to originality and quality. Abstract Design of RFID-enabled Aircraft Reverse Logistics Network Simulation Kehinde Oluyemisi Adetiloye The reverse logistics (RL) of aircrafts pose a big challenge to its owners due to the complexity of its RL network, and the inherit problems of realizing a reliable sy...

Logistics processes, where RFID technologies are applied to improve process efficiency and flexible organisation of collaboration is required in the foreground, pose challenges to process modelling, analysis and design in business process management. To meet these challenges, we propose in this paper an integrated approach which bundles XSLT nets, a novel variant of high-level Petri nets to mod...

The life of many people in the world is under the danger because of the accidents and unpredicted diseases, which require relief. Since, most of such cases occur in unpredictable condition, for an appropriate planning, the uncertain conditions should be investigated. Consequently, this paper investigates the integrated and multi-step process of locating, assigning and routing the air and la...

This work is concerned with the efficient design of a reverse logistics network using an extended version of models currently found in the literature. Those traditional, basic models are formulated as mixed integer linear programs (MILP-model) and determine which facilities to open that minimize the investment, processing, transportation, disposal and penalty costs while supply, demand and capa...