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Customer Behaviour Analysis for Coordinated Delivery Service Using Mobile Parcel Lockers and Autonomous Robots: A Congestion-Game Model
Last-mile logistics operators have recently introduced mobile parcel lockers (MPLs) and autonomous delivery robots (ADRs) to alleviate …
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Last-mile Collaboration: A Decentralized Mechanism with Bounded Performance Guarantees and Implementation Strategies
The last-mile urban freight market is characterised by soaring fragmentation, fierce competition and a super-low profit margin. These …
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Last-mile Collaboration: A Decentralized Mechanism with Bounded Performance Guarantees and Implementation Strategies
The last-mile urban freight market is characterised by soaring fragmentation, fierce competition and a super-low profit margin. These …
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Policy and Strategy Evaluation of Ridesharing Autonomous Vehicle Operation: A London Case Study
To understand the dynamics of an autonomous ridesharing transport mode from the perspectives of different stakeholders, a single model …
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Approximate Optimum Curbside Utilisation for Pick-Up and Drop-Off (PUDO) and Parking Demands Using Reinforcement Learning
With the uptake of automated transport, espe- cially Pick-Up and Drop-Off (PUDO) operations of Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs), the …
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Location-routing Optimisation for Urban Logistics Using Mobile Parcel Locker Based on Hybrid Q-Learning Algorithm
Mobile parcel lockers (MPLs) have been recently introduced by urban logistics operators as a means to reduce traffic congestion and …
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Novel Trajectory Prediction Algorithm Using a Full Dataset: Comparison and Ablation Studies
Recent research efforts into pedestrian-CAV interactions have focused on large-scale, real-world data, eschewing the experimental …
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Novel Trajectory Prediction Algorithm Using a Full Dataset: Comparison and Ablation Studies
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been lauded as the next stage in transportation for decades, although they suffer from several …
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An integrated vertiport placement model considering vehicle sizing and queuing
The increasing levels of congestion and infrastructure costs in cities have created a need for more intelligent transport systems. …
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Feasibility of Equity-driven Taxi Pricing Strategy based on Double Auction Mechanism in Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand
Passenger rejection by taxi drivers impacts the travel behaviour in many cities and suburban areas, often leaving those potential …
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Integrated Path Planning and Task Assignment Model for On-Demand Last-Mile UAV-Based Delivery
Recent technological advancements and investments have transformed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into a credible and reliable tool …
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The Competition and Inefficiency in Urban Road Last-Mile Delivery
The last-mile delivery market is highly competitive and is saturated with numerous small operators. In this context, the fierce …
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Transferring Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Policies for Autonomous Driving using Sim-to-Real
Autonomous Driving requires high levels of coordination and collaboration between agents. Achieving effective coordination in …
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A Reinforcement Learning-based Adaptive Control Model for Future Street Planning: An Algorithm and A Case Study
With the emerging technologies in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), the adaptive operation of road space is likely to be …
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Fast Collision Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles using a Stochastic Dynamics Model
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) have the potential to save millions of lives by reducing traffic deaths and accidents. However, despite …
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A Decentralised Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for the Same-Day Delivery Problem
Same-Day Delivery services are becoming increasingly popular in recent years. These have been usually modelled by previous studies as a …
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A Domain Adaptation Framework for Short-term Traffic Prediction
Short-term traffic prediction is one of the most important elements in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Although an extensive …
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Demand modelling and optimal vertiport placement for airport-purposed eVTOL services
Recent technological advances have only recently made Urban Air Mobility feasible as a realistic alternative to existing transport …
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Intelligent Management of On-street Parking Provision for the Autonomous Vehicles Era
The increasing degree of connectivity between vehicles and infrastructure, and the impending deployment of autonomous vehicles (AV) in …
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A bilevel optimisation model for the selection of parking and charging facilities for EV-based ride-hailing services
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and Park & Ride (P&R) initiatives are gaining ground around the world, as remedial measures …
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A top-down integrated approach to define key vulnerability indices for disaster risk management at container terminals
This paper presents a novel methodological framework to the definition of vulnerability indices in disaster risk management at …
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Analysis of the world container shipping network by spanning tree and gravity model
In previous work, the authors pioneered the use of spanning trees to study the optimal structure of public transport networks. Spanning …
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Optimal Planning for the Logistic System of Modular Construction through Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming
The modular construction method has been adopted extensively by the construction sector for pursuing higher building quality and better …
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Sequential Trajectory Optimisation Using Dynamic Airspace Sectorisation
Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are finding a rapidly increasing number of applications in delivery, passenger transport, …
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Simulation and Evaluation of CAVs Behavior in an Isolated Signalized Intersection Equipped with Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer System
This paper proposes an idea of charging eco-driving connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) which drive smoothly passing signalized …
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A flow-based resilience assessment method for interdependent urban infrastructure networks
Catastrophic events in recent years have shown that interdependencies between different urban infrastructure systems can result in …
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Analysing the effects of interdependency on the resilience of urban transport systems, A dynamic network flow approach
After natural disasters and other major disruptions, interdependencies between transport networks and other critical infrastructure …
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Dynamic Pricing in One-Sided Autonomous Ride-Sourcing Markets
Dynamic pricing has been used by Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) to achieve a balance between the volume of ride requests with …
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Integrated Trajectory-Location-Routing for Rapid Humanitarian Deliveries using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have the potential to provide an economical solution to the challenges of post-disaster land-based relief …
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Market dynamics between public transport and competitive ride-sourcing providers
Recent advances in communications and IT technology have underpinned the rapid development of trans- portation network companies (TNCs) …
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Probabilistic assessment of container shipping route disruption costs from natural disasters - An application to the KIX Australia-New Zealand Service Line
This paper presents the findings of a study developing a methodological framework for the quantification of natural disasters’ …
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Ultra-Capacitor based kinetic energy recovery system for heavy goods vehicles
The Climate Change Act 2008 commits the UK to reduce the Greenhouse Gas emissions by 80% by 2050 relative to 1990 levels. While Heavy …
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A dynamic network flow model for interdependent infrastructure and supply chain networks with uncertain asset operability
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A Fleet Sizing Algorithm for Autonomous Car Sharing
In the past ten years, the popularity of car sharing schemes has been growing rapidly. Depending on service policies, a customer might …
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Establishing outsourcing and supply chain plans for prefabricated construction projects under uncertain productivity
In prefabricated construction projects, unlike stick-built construction projects, structural components are produced in a factory …
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Integrated Trajectory Optimisation and Location‐Routing Method for Rapid Medical Deliveries using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Battery-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are increasingly used to enhance humanitarian response. An ongoing initiative led by the World …
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Investigating Schedule Deviation in Construction Projects through Root Cause Analysis
In construction projects delays are not only disruptive but also expensive. Thus, the reasons for schedule deviation need to be …
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Modelling the Dynamics of Asset Operability and Network Flows in Interdependent Infrastructure Systems after Disruptive Events
Catastrophic events in recent years have shown that complex interdependencies between critical infrastructure systems can result in …
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Modelling the impact of infrastructure developments on the resilience of intermodal container transport networks: One-Belt-One-Road Case study
Infrastructure development initiatives such as terminal expansions and the addition of new corridors are common interventions aiming to …
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Rapid Urban Evacuation across Constrained Transport Networks
Evacuations are the quick removal of people from a dangerous area, and are necessary for disaster response. However, traffic …
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Realisation of the optimal logistics plan for modular construction
The construction sector is undergoing a shift from in-situ building method to design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA) systems. …
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Supply chain design for modular construction projects
The construction sector is currently undergoing a shift from stick-built construction techniques to modular building systems. If …
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Analysing the resilience of metro systems under consideration of interdependencies
Metro systems are exposed to various risks arising from natural and man-made disasters. The effective protection of these complex …
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Analysing World Events Using the GDELT dataset and Google BigQuery
The Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT) aims at capturing world events by monitoring the global news continuously, …
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Assessing Autonomous Vehicle Impact on Urban Traffic Emissions and Intersection Performance
This paper exploits the potential contribution of autonomous vehicles towards sustainable urban transport through their interaction …
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Attacker-defender modelling of transport vulnerability in maritime logistics corridors
Access to the global container liner shipping network is of crucial importance for international trade and the sustainable development …
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Equipment Sizing using Petri Networks
Ports have become freight distribution hubs. Due to fierce regional and international competition, port operators seek ways to maximise …
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Joint Vulnerability Analysis of Urban Rail Transit and Utility Networks
As climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme weather events, cities around the world develop strategies to …
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Regional conflicts and impact of liner shipping
Understanding and predicting how container routing stands to be impacted by different scenarios of liner shipping network perturbations …
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Resilience of Liner Shipping Networks
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Analysis of cascading failures across interdependent dynamic networks
Improving the resilience of urban infrastructure, such as transport, energy and telecommunication networks, is a key aspect of disaster …
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Modelling the Effects of Port Disruptions: Assessment of Disaster Impacts Using a Cost-Based Container Flow Assignment in Liner Shipping Networks
In recent years, the increasing levels of interdependence between ports and logistic networks have underlined the importance of an …
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Strategic maritime container transport design in oligopolistic markets
This paper considers the maritime container assignment problem in a market setting with two competing firms. Given a series of known, …
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Analysis of Prefabricated Urban Housing Constructions on Freight Transport Systems
Prefabricated buildings have become the choice of many construction teams as they offer time, cost, quality and environmental benefits …
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Effects of Speed Reduction Policies near Ports
Over the last decades, slow steaming strategies have been adopted by most shipping lines with the aim of reducing fuel costs. At the …
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Long-range collision avoidance for shared space simulation based on social forces
Shared space is an innovative approach to improve environments where both pedestrians and vehicles are present, with integrated layouts …
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A Systematic Evaluation of Alternative Options for the Reduction of Vessel Emissions in Ports
Transport operations are significant contributors to pollutant emissions across the globe. Maritime transport is responsible for …
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Minimization of energy consumption within a container terminal
Container terminals require large amounts of energy due to the intensity of their operations. The limited area available for storing …
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Strategic network design in an oligopolistic market for maritime container transport
We consider an essential model in which two symmetric and profit-maximizing firms compete in a shipping industry characterized by a …
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Repositioning in Bicycle-Sharing Schemes
Difficulties in maintaining adequate numbers of bicycles and free docking spaces are a known issue in the operation of bicycle-sharing …
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Frequency-Based Maritime Container Assignment Model for Global Liner Services
This paper transposes the classic frequency-based transit assignment method of Spiess and Florian to containers demonstrating its …
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Repositioning algorithms for the global containership assignment network
The classic frequency-based transit assignment method of Spiess and Florian has been previously used as the basis for a maritime …
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Stochastic and deterministic assignment under uncertainty for automated container terminals
We consider the Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) dispatching problem in container terminals where vehicles are allowed to carry more than …
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Towards a repositioning algorithms for bike sharing schemes
Several bike sharing schemes have been deployed around the world over the last decade, with one launching in London over the summer of …
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Future for the Automation of Container Terminals
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Modelling and solution approaches to the multi-load AGV dispatching problem in seaport container Terminals
We consider the automated guided vehicle (AGV) dispatching problem in container terminals where vehicles are allowed to carry more than …
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Stack Operation Uncertainty in Automated Container Terminals - Effects, Challenges and Control Techniques
The stochastic nature of container terminals is known to give rise to substantial challenges in the design of software algorithms for …
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A fresh look at container terminal simulation and its application in academic research
Container terminal simulation has long been recognised as a powerful tool by researchers and practitioners alike. As automation …
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The Future of Automation
Originating from a freight transportation idea using trailers and attributed to Malcolm McLean, container shipment is probably the …
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Uncertainty in container terminal operations
An accurate visual microsimulation model has been developed and used to analyse the interaction of various equipment units commonly …
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Application of Robust Optimisation Techniques to Automated Container Terminals
Over recent years, there has been an increasing interest in automated operations of container terminals throughout Western Europe, …
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Implementation of an Automated Guided Vehicle dispatching and scheduling framework using robust optimisation
Technologies used in automated container terminals, largely borrowed from other industrial domains, progressed rapidly after their …
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Simulation and Evaluation of Intelligent Check in Facilities for Ferry Port Terminals
Ferry port terminals are an important element of a country’s transport infrastructure. Not only are they vital in providing …
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Security and Reliability of the Liner Container-Shipping Network
Since the events of 11 September 2001, more focus has been given to the role of seaports as critical nodes in the functioning and …
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