Sustainable Transportation & Consumption

Summary

This part of research focuses on sustainable transportation and consumption, including life cycle assessment (LCA) of bike-sharing systems, optimization of vehicle routing and logistics, agent-based modeling of consumer adoption of sustainable technologies, and resource allocation strategies in retail and food services.

Publications

Agent-Based Modeling for By-Product Metal Supply—A Case Study on Indium

J Cao, CH Choi, F Zhao

Sustainability 13 (14), 7881, 2021

An improved general variable neighborhood search for a static bike-sharing rebalancing problem considering the depot inventory

Y Ren, L Meng, F Zhao, C Zhang, H Guo, Y Tian, W Tong, JW Sutherland

Expert Systems with Applications 160, 113752, 2020

Allocating resources for a restaurant that serves regular and group-buying customers

T Zhang, J Zhang, F Zhao, Y Ru, JW Sutherland

Electronic Commerce Research 20 (4), 883-913, 2020

Optimizing bike sharing systems from the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions perspective

H Luo, F Zhao, WQ Chen, H Cai

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 117, 102705, 2020

Rebalancing bike sharing systems for minimizing depot inventory and traveling costs

Y Ren, F Zhao, H Jin, Z Jiao, L Meng, C Zhang, JW Sutherland

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 21 (9), 3871-3882, 2019

Comparative life cycle assessment of station-based and dock-less bike sharing systems

H Luo, Z Kou, F Zhao, H Cai

Resources, Conservation and Recycling 146, 180-189, 2019

The impact of cap-and-trade mechanism and consumers’ environmental preferences on a retailer-led supply Chain

W Tong, D Mu, F Zhao, GP Mendis, JW Sutherland

Resources, Conservation and Recycling 142, 88-100, 2019

An Approximation of the Customer Waiting Time for Online Restaurants Owning Delivery System

T Zhang, F Zhao, J Zhang, G Mendis, Y Ru, JW Sutherland

Journal of Systems Science and Complexity 32 (3), 907-931, 2019

Fresh produce retailing: A comparison of replenish-to-order and replenish-to-stock modes

T Zhang, F Zhao, Y Ru, JW Sutherland

Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics 21 (4), 771-781, 2018

An analytical hierarchy process-based study on the factors affecting legislation on plastic bags in the USA

Z Li, F Zhao

Waste Management & Research 35 (8), 795-809, 2017

Agent-based modeling of the adoption of high-efficiency lighting in the residential sector

J Cao, CH Choi, F Zhao

Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 19, 70-78, 2017

Solving vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery using parallel simulated annealing algorithm

D Mu, C Wang, F Zhao, JW Sutherland

International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics 8 (1), 81-106, 2016

A parallel simulated annealing method for the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup–delivery and time windows

C Wang, D Mu, F Zhao, JW Sutherland

Computers & Industrial Engineering 83, 111-122, 2015

Simulation modeling framework for uncovering system behaviors in the biofuels supply chain network

DB Agusdinata, S Lee, F Zhao, W Thissen

Simulation 90 (9), 1103-1116, 2014

Profiling energy consumption of smartphone users for environmentally efficient business decisions

WZ Bernstein, D Ramanujan, F Zhao, K Ramani

ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and …, 2013

Simulated annealing for a vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup-delivery and time windows

C Wang, F Zhao, D Mu, JW Sutherland

Advances in Production Management Systems. Sustainable Production and … 2013

Modeling Framework for Uncovering System Behaviors in Biofuels Supply Chain Network

DB Agusdinata, S Lee, F Zhao, D DeLaurentis, W Thissen

Third International Engineering Systems Symposium 2012