Online restaurant aggregators, which connect diners with restaurants and organize the delivery of ordered meals, have experienced significant growth in recent years. Meal delivery logistics is quite challenging, primarily due to the difficulty in managing the supply of delivery resources, i.e.,...

We introduce a novel multimodal (ground and air transportation) network design model with transshipments for the transport of express cargo with heterogeneous service classes (i.e., next morning delivery, and next day delivery). We formulate this problem using a novel path-based mixed-integer...

Retailers, from fashion stores to grocery stores, have to decide what range of products to offer, i.e., their product assortment. New business trends, such as mass customization and shorter product life cycles, make predicting demand more difficult, which in turn complicates assortment planning....

Seamless integration of ride-sharing and public transit may offer fast, reliable, and affordable transfer to and from transit stations in suburban areas thereby enhancing mobility of residents. We investigate the potential benefits of such a system, as well as the ride-matching technology...

We consider a setting in which a not-for-profit rail infrastructure provider divides the costs of track maintenance and renewals and the costs of managing track access proportionally among above-rail operators based on their usage. We study a proposed access charge policy aimed at incentivizing...

Many e-tailers providing attended home delivery, especially e-grocers, offer narrow delivery time slots to ensure satisfactory customer service. The choice of delivery time slots has to balance marketing and operational considerations, which results in a complex planning problem. We study the...

We investigate the potential benefits of introducing meeting points in a ride-sharing system. With meeting points, riders can be picked up and dropped off either at their origin and destination or at a meeting point that is within a certain distance from their origin or destination. The...