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Description:: Travel time is a key aspect of capturing and evaluating the operational performance and service quality of transportation systems, and travel time improvement is a common objective for travelers, service providers, transportation practitioners and agencies. However, the reliability of travel times, including the probability of unexpected delays, is an important...
Keyword:: algorithms, networks, travel time reliability, stochastic networks, routing, and path finding
Subject:: Transportation, Operations research, and Civil engineering
Creator:: Filipovska, Monika
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_850853 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15794

Description:: This dissertation is motivated by the decision process of the supply chain team of a major furniture retailer that delivers its products at the customer's home. In retail supply chains for companies offering home delivery services, demand surges are observed at the store level, which translate to a high volume...
Keyword:: retail, home delivery, supply chain, customer behavior, demand information, and transportation
Subject:: Management, Transportation, and Operations research
Creator:: Boada-Collado, Pol
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15544 and etdadmin_upload_817419

Description:: Two recent developments in the transportation industry – shared-use mobility services and fully-autonomous vehicles (AVs) – have the potential to fundamentally transform urban mobility. Shared-use mobility services (e.g. Uber, Lyft, Via, Chariot, ZipCar, and Car2go) are already beginning to bridge the gap between personal vehicles and fixed-route transit service in...
Keyword:: Dynamic Vehicle Routing, Stochastic Dynamic Control Problem, Mobility-on-Demand, Shared Mobility, and Autonomous Vehicles
Subject:: Transportation, Operations research, and Urban planning
Creator:: Hyland, Michael Francis
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14470 and etdadmin_upload_627240

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