Disaggregate studies of the impacts of telecommunications applications (e.g. telecommuting) on travel have generally found a net substitution effect. However, such studies have all been short-term and small-scale, and there is reason to believe that when more indirect and longer-term effects are accounted for, complementarity is the likely outcome. At least two aggregate studies have focused on...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted negatively on our society and resulted in numerous deaths. It had an effect on every facet of health-care delivery. Rules, regulations, and payment policies were changed to allow extensive use of telecommunications technology in lieu of in-person clinical visits to protect health care personnel and patients throughout the country from the risk of disease trans...

Combinatorial optimization problems are abundant in the telecommunications industry. In this paper, we present four real-world telecommunications applications where combinatorial optimization plays a major role. The first problem concerns the optimal location of modem pools for an internet service provider. The second problem deals with the optimal routing of permanent virtual circuits for a fr...