Logistics is a fast growing business sector in Turkey as well as the rest of the world. The need businesses have to transport, store and deliver goods is now acknowledged as a core factor building the product cost. Thus companies offering service in this sector basically combine needs of different customers and cater to all of them to take down the logistics costs, and therefore the product cos...

The scale planning of the coal logistics center plays an important role in coal logistics network planning. Based on the coal logistics network planning, this paper analyses the coalmine production capacity, transportation capacity, coal demand and other factors, then brings forward the demand trend coefficient on that basis. Further, the authors construct a scale-planning model for the coal lo...

Postal logistics has a complex transportation network for efficient mail delivery. Therefore, a postal logistics network consists of various functional sites with a hybrid hub-and-spoke structure. More specifically, there are multiple Delivery & Pickup Stations (D&PSs), multiple Mail Processing Centers (MPCs), and one Exchange Center (EC). In this paper, we develop two mathematical models with ...

and submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Mechanical Engineering) complies with the regulations of the University and meets the accepted standards with respect to originality and quality. Many manufacturers are moving towards green manufacturing. One of the actions for environment friendly manufacturing is collection of end-of-life products...

In this study, we introduce the urban recharging infrastructure design problem with stochastic demands and capacitated recharging stations. Stochastic recharge demands shaped by daily transportation/logistics activity cycles, capacity limitations of recharging stations and users’ route preferences need to be considered simultaneously to address this urgent problem that focus on the inner city t...

Today, more and digital services get designed to address multi-stakeholder challenges easing transactions communication along supply chains. Here, it is essential that the underlying satisfy all relevant stakeholders sufficiently. Especially, onboarding as a problem - service fit by itself does not guarantee support adoption of stakeholders. Given stakeholders’ unique roles responsibilities the...

In this paper we present a new combinatorial problem, called minmax multidimensional knapsack problem (MKP), motivated by a military logistics problem. The logistics problem is a two-period, two-level, chance-constrained problem with recourse. We show that the MKP is NP-hard and develop a practically efficient combinatorial algorithm for solving it. We also show that under some reasonable assum...