The conflict between the increased parking demand and limited curbside space calls for efficient on-street parking management. Among various parking demands, unsatisfied freight and service vehicles could cause high societal costs. Research has found that these two types of vehicles have major...

Recently, how to enhance the employability of the workforce and the quality of the environment becomes the focus of attention from all sectors of society in China. Providing diversified jobs for workers and achieving green urban development are important goals of China's new-type urbanization...

Mobile service providers often motivate sales agents to attract more potential customers by sharing part of service revenue with agents. Motivated by the practice in the mobile service industry, we build a theoretical model considering a mobile service chain with a service provider selling...

On the basis of previous studies about lactic acid (LA) production from food waste (‘cooked’ waste from canteens and restaurants), this study explored LA production from kitchen garbage (KG, ‘raw’ waste from household kitchens) for the first time. Considerable pretreatment method for...

Purpose Most of the existing studies on the evolution of emergency topics in social media focused on the emergency information demand of fixed user type in emergency while ignoring the changing roles of stakeholders during the emergency. Thus in this study, a three-dimensional dynamic topic...