Sustainable supply chain management is a topical area which is continuing to grow and evolve. Within supply chains, downstream distribution from producers to customers plays a significant role in the environmental performance of production supply chains. With consumer consciousness growing in the area of sustainable food supply, food distribution needs to embrace and adapt to improve its enviro...

The Gale-Shapley “propose/reject” algorithm is a wellknown procedure for solving the classical stable marriage problem. In this paper we study this algorithm in the context of the many-to-many stable marriage problem, also known as the stable allocation or ordinal transportation problem. We present an integral variant of the GaleShapley algorithm that provides a direct analog, in the context of...

We consider the problem of common due window location scheduling on a single machine, where the processing times of jobs depend both on their starting times and positions in a sequence. The problem is to determine the optimal earliest due date, the due window size, and the job schedule simultaneously to minimize costs for earliness, tardiness, earliest due date assignment and due window size pe...

The growing demand for nickel metal and the depletion of high-grade sulfide ore reserves have turned direction industry towards laterites which are not desirable as primary source due to their low Ni content more energy-intensive processing. Thus, alternative routes essential effectively processing these ores while reducing costs greenhouse gas emissions. Solid-state reduction followed by magne...

Ride-sharing services are one of the top growing sustainable transportation trends led by mobility-as-a-service companies. Ridesharing is a system that provides ability to share vehicles on similar routes for passengers with or nearby destinations short notice, leading decreased costs travelers. At same time, though, it takes longer get from place place, increasing travel time. Therefore, funda...

A behavior-consistent information-based network control approach determines real-time traffic routing strategies by explicitly accounting for drivers’ likely response to the controller-recommended routes while generating these strategies. This paper proposes paradigms to deploy a behavior-consistent approach developed by the authors (Paz and Peeta 2007). These paradigms seek to enhance deployme...

The locomotive assignment and the freight train scheduling are important problems in railway transportation. Freight cars are coupled to form a freight rake. The freight rake becomes a train when a locomotive is coupled to it. The locomotive assignment problem assigns locomotives to a set of freight rakes in a way that, with minimum locomotive deadheading time, rake coupling delay and locomotiv...

The use of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is quickly spreading in the fields bioenergy generation and wastewater treatment, as well biosynthesis valuable compounds for electrolysis (MECs). MFCs MECs have not been able to penetrate market economic feasibility lost when their performances are boosted by nanomaterials. nanoparticles used realize or decorate components (electrodes membrane) expensive ...

In this paper we study the Multi-period Vehicle Routing Problem with Due dates (MVRPD), where customers have to be served between a release and a due date. Customers with due dates exceeding the planning period may be postponed at a cost. A fleet of capacitated vehicles is available to perform the distribution in each day of the planning period. The objective of the problem is to find vehicle r...