Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies adopted by urban consolidation centres on competition between logistics service providers. Taking into consideration pollution charges issued city councils to reduce CO 2 emissions in freight distribution, we study a Hotelling-like market setting where providers could voluntarily outsource last mile ...

In this paper we propose a dynamic Stackelberg game-theoretic model for urban freight transportation planning which is able to characterize the interaction between freight and personal transportation in an urban area. The problem is formulated as a bi-level dynamic mathematical program with equilibrium constraints (MPEC) which belongs to a class of computationally challenging problems. The lowe...

The container, a standard size metal box designed to be moved with common handling equipment into which cargo is packed for shipment aboard in specifically configured oceangoing vessels, has evolved into the key physical and logistical support of international trade and globalization. Although available in several sizes, all containers adhere to a single standard, which accelerated containeriza...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Completing this dissertation has been quite a journey! It has brought me immense professional and personal growth and a plethora of experiences that I will fondly remember. I am very grateful to have worked with Alan Erera and Martin Savelsbergh. They have been exceptional advisors who guided, motivated, and supported me to develop as a researcher and make this dissertation pos...

This paper considers the time-dependent service network design problem with stochastic demand represented by scenarios. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to address real life-size instances of this problem. The model integrates the balancing of empty vehicles, the cost of handling freight in intermediate terminals, the costs associated with moving freight using the selected services, ...

Freight and passenger transport are two main functions of the infrastructure and transportation networks in each country. It is required to efficiently utilize the transportation infrastructures to increase transportation-related performance measures. In this study, data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is used to evaluate performance of the Iranian provinces from the freight and passenger tran...