The focus of our research is on rail transportation of intermodal containers. We address the problem of determining day-of-week schedules for both direct and indirect (via a hub) trains and allocating containers to these trains for the rail (linehaul) portion of the intermodal trip. The goal is to minimize operating costs, including a fixed charge for each train, variable transportation and han...

Transportation electrification has undergone major changes since the last decade. Success of the smart grid with renewable energy integration solely depends upon the large-scale penetration of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) for a sustainable and carbon-free transportation sector. One of the key performance indicators in the hybrid electric vehicle is the State-of-Charge (SoC), which n...

The fixed-charge capacitated multicommodity network design formulation (CMND) represents a generic model for a wide range of applications in planning the construction, development, improvement, and operation of transportation, logistics, telecommunication, and production systems (Balakrishnan, Magnanti, and Mirchandani 1997 and references therein). In these applications, multiple commodities (g...

Even with the advanced technology of forecasting and current infrastructure to mitigate the loss from natural hazards, people suffer from devastating hurricanes every year. Although Nature or a natural system creates such storms, humans can still forecast and respond to them. A forecasting system predicts the natural system, and a transportation system reacts to it. The interactions of these hu...

Battery technology is the key bottleneck in many cyberphysical systems (CPS). For green-energy CPS transportation applications, such as hybrid electrical vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in HEVs (PHEVs), the battery system design is mostly based on lithium-ion rechargeable electrochemical battery technology, which is bulky, expensive, unreliable, and is the primary roadblock for PHEV adoption and marke...

Battery technology is the key bottleneck in many cyberphysical systems (CPS). For green-energy CPS transportation applications, such as hybrid electrical vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in HEVs (PHEVs), the battery system design is mostly based on lithium-ion rechargeable electrochemical battery technology, which is bulky, expensive, unreliable, and is the primary roadblock for PHEV adoption and marke...

This paper is to integrate among solid transportation problem, budget constraints and carbon emission with probable maximum profit. The range of air pollution climate change are effected by $${\text {CO}_2}$$ gas other greenhouse gases from myriad systems. Henceforth, our target minimize for pollution-free environment. Transportation system single objective hardly applicable the situation more ...

E CONOMIC and environmental incentives, as well as advances in information and control technologies, are reshaping the traditional view of transportation systems. The emergence of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has shown that electrification is a clear trend to improve performance, efficiency, and sustainability of transportation systems since elec...

This paper deals with a multi-period fixed charge production-distribution problem associated with backorder and inventories. The objective is to determine the size of the shipments from each supplier and backorder and inventories at each period, so that the total cost incurred during the entire period towards production, transportation, backorder and inventories is minimised. A 0-1 mixed intege...