This article addresses the first-mile ride-sharing problem, which entails efficiently transporting passengers from a set of origins to a shared destination. Typical destinations are stations, central business districts, or hospitals. Successful optimization of this problem has the potential to...

Given a set of geographically dispersed vehicles, the first-mile ride-sharing problem seeks optimal routes to transport customers to a common destination (e.g., a transit station) via shared trips. In this article, we address the trade off between operating costs and service rates. The resulting...

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) for industrial emission point sources is one of the potential instruments to achieve net-zero carbon dioxide (CO2) goals. However, emission point sources and storage formations are often far from each other, which requires capable CO2 transportation...