Energy and environmental sustainability of waste personal protective equipment (PPE) treatment under COVID-19

X Zhao, JJ Klemeš, F You - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Combating the COVID-19 pandemic has raised the demand for and disposal of personal
protective equipment in the United States. This work proposes a novel waste personal …

Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the demand for water quality

DA Keiser, JS Shapiro - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Since the 1972 US Clean Water Act, government and industry have invested over 1
trillion to abate water pollution, or 100 per person-year. Over half of US stream and river …

Decarbonization, population disruption and resource inventories in the global energy transition

K Svobodova, JR Owen, D Kemp, V Moudrý… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We develop a novel approach to analysing decarbonisation strategies by linking global
resource inventories with demographic systems. Our 'mine-town systems' approach …

Same‐day delivery with heterogeneous fleets of drones and vehicles

MW Ulmer, BW Thomas - Networks, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we analyze how drones can be combined with regular delivery vehicles to
improve same‐day delivery performance. To this end, we present a dynamic vehicle routing …

The Problem Of The Color Line: Spatial Access To Hospital Services For Minoritized Racial And Ethnic Groups: Study examines spatial access to hospital services for …

JM Eberth, P Hung, GA Benavidez, JC Probst… - Health …, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
Examining how spatial access to health care varies across geography is key to documenting
structural inequalities in the United States. In this article and the accompanying StoryMap …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling travel time in urban networks: comparable measures for private car and public transport

M Salonen, T Toivonen - Journal of transport Geography, 2013 - Elsevier
Analysing the accessibility disparity between different travel modes is recognised as an
efficient way to assess the environmental and social sustainability of transport and land use …

The restaurant meal delivery problem: Dynamic pickup and delivery with deadlines and random ready times

MW Ulmer, BW Thomas, AM Campbell… - Transportation …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a stochastic dynamic pickup and delivery problem in which a fleet of drivers
delivers food from a set of restaurants to ordering customers. The objective is to dynamically …

Optimizing matching time interval and matching radius in on-demand ride-sourcing markets

H Yang, X Qin, J Ke, J Ye - Transportation Research Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
With the availability of the location information of drivers and passengers, ride-sourcing
platforms can now provide increasingly efficient online matching compared with physical …

Deep Q-learning for same-day delivery with vehicles and drones

X Chen, MW Ulmer, BW Thomas - European Journal of Operational …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider same-day delivery with vehicles and drones. Customers make
delivery requests over the course of the day, and the dispatcher dynamically dispatches …

Emission reduction potentials for academic conference travel

S Van Ewijk, P Hoekman - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Air travel, including academic conference travel, is a major contributor to global greenhouse
gas emissions and must be limited to achieve climate change targets. To model reduction …