There has been a resurgence of interest in demand-responsive shared-ride systems,
motivated by concerns for the environment and also new developments in technologies …

This paper provides an overview of developments in robust optimization since 2007. It seeks
to give a representative picture of the research topics most explored in recent years …

Healthcare is considered one basic necessity to sustaining life; thereby, assessing the
character of a healthy and resilient supply chain can help a nation develop ideas to combat …

Dial-a-ride problems consist of designing vehicle routes and time schedules in a system of
demand-dependent, collective people transportation. In the standard problem, operational …

This study analyzes and solves a patient transportation problem arising in large hospitals.
The aim is to provide an efficient and timely transport service to patients between several …

In this paper, a multi-depot dial-a-ride problem arising from a real-world healthcare
application is addressed, concerning the non-emergency transportation of patients. The …

Dial-a-ride problems deal with the transportation of people between pickup and delivery
locations. Given the fact that people are subject to transportation, constraints related to …

The engineering of digital twins and their user interaction parts with explicated processes,
namely process-aware digital twin cockpits (PADTCs), is challenging due to the complexity …

This paper addresses a real-life public patient transportation problem derived from the Hong
Kong Hospital Authority (HKHA), which provides ambulance transportation services for …

Purpose–The purpose of the present paper is to discuss organisational problems that occur
in situations that are complex because the treatment of patients requires input from multiple …