Vladimir Simic

University of Belgrade · Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in healthcare waste (HCW). HCW management treatment needs to be re-taken into focus to deal with this challenge. In practice, there are several treatments of HCW with their advantages and disadvantages. This study is conducted to select the appropriate treatment for HCW in the Brčko District of Bosnia and He...

Dear Colleagues, Preference relations are matrix structures constructed by a two-by-two comparison of alternatives, where each element represents the degree of preference of one alternative over another. Considering the advantage of fuzzy set theory in expressing the uncertainty of preference information, preference relations are extended into fuz...

The growing global demand for new cars has resulted in a rise in end-of-life vehicles (ELV), both with usable and non-usable parts. Malaysia faces a particularly pressing issue of abandoned vehicles (AVs), as the country currently lacks comprehensive legislation for managing ELV. On the other hand, countries such as the US, Japan, Belgium, Korea, a...

In this study, the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique is used in collaboration with K-medoids clustering to establish a novel algorithm for extending the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in the presence of uncertainty. One of the most important problems in WSNs is the energy consumption. Furthermore, extending the network li...

Traffic congestion and environmental pollution generated by transportation activities significantly endanger the sustainable development of cities. This study presents a new strategy for implementing the concept of shared mobility, where postal operators use their widespread networks of units and serve as service providers. To enhance its real-worl...

For the first time, this study addresses the problem of evaluating propulsion technologies for sustainable road freight distribution from the multi-criteria group decision-making perspective. It aims to help logistics companies involved in global supply chains significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from freight distribution activities....

For the first time, the critical worldwide problem of prioritizing zero-emission last-mile delivery (LMD) solutions for sustainable city logistics is addressed and solved in this study. It not only aims to help city logistics companies sustainably decarbonize urban freight distribution but also provide valuable practical guidelines. To evaluate zer...

Wind resource is the most promising renewable energy, which has become a suitable replacement for fossil fuels. Optimizing the transferring wind energy from a wind turbine is essential to obtain the maximum power output as other variables are uncontrollable. This paper presents four different optimization algorithms, namely ant lion optimization (A...

The selection and prioritization of suitable strategies to address the challenges to the successful operation and implementation of the bus rapid transit (BRT) system is a common problem faced by practitioners and decision-makers. Recent research has widely discussed the issue, but such assessments have remained limited in the city of Dar es Salaam...

Effective management of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) represents a sound strategy to mitigate global climate change. ELVs are contaminants that pollute water, air, soil, and landscape. This waste flow must be adequately treated, but no proper rule oversees the disposal of ELV waste in Malaysia. This study aims to determine the extent of implementing...

In a developing country like India, the primary source of power generation is fossil fuels. The lion's share of India's electricity production is from fossil fuels leading to massive greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) like CO2, which causes global warming. To deal with climate change and control global warming, the carbon capture utilization and storag...

The basic goal of this research is to find the shortest path of a semidirected graph and apply it to the road network system. In the field of graph theory, networks are described as directed graphs, undirected graphs, or a combination of both. However, in the modern era of computing, several networks, such as social media networks, granular network...

Accidents occurring in the process of petroleum transportation have dire consequences for the population and environment. In this study, the sustainable route selection problem has been addressed from the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) perspective for the first time. The study aims to help planning authorities find the most sustainable route...

When there isn't enough evidence, it can be hard for decision-makers (DMs) to evaluate their evaluations of strategic decision issues in the right way. An expansion of Pythagorean fuzzy sets (PFSs), known as interval-valued PFSs (IVPFSs), can provide sufficient information space for DMs so that they can assess their evaluations using interval numbe...

This review paper investigates the healthcare' simulation appointment scheduling system (SASS). It primarily aims to highlight critical appointment scheduling challenges and outline the most prominent research topics. This critical review also intends to provide a comprehensive summary of these works, revealing progress achieved on the topic while...

Due to natural disasters, urban transformations and many other factors, sustainable end-of-life buildings (ELBs) waste management is gaining importance within the last decades, which is vigorous for both economic and conservation matters. Turkey is located on active zones in terms of natural disasters and faced numerous destructive events. Therefor...

The long-term sustainability of the railway transportation system is determined by a set of criteria that must be considered. For this reason, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques have been used because of their high possibility of providing complementary instruments with successful flexibility. Keeping this in mind, we developed a mult...

Forecasting climate and the development of the environment have been essential in recent days since there has been a drastic change in nature. Weather forecasting plays a significant role in decision-making in traffic management, tourism planning, crop cultivation in agriculture, and warning the people nearby the seaside about the climate situation...

Climate change is the foremost environmental problem that negatively affects the lives of people. Sustainable policies offer an opportunity to mitigate climate change effects of urban transportation. Four sustainable policies are presented to alter the propagation speed of climate change. However, there is a major gap regarding the prioritization o...

Global warming and air pollution are two of the most severe problems faced by humanity in recent years. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by vehicles make up for a sizeable portion of the cause of these problems. To mitigate the effects of vehicles on air pollution and global warming, sustainable and environmentally friendly measures are to be...

Waste management is gaining crucial importance as recycling aims at transforming produced waste into value for the economy. As the automotive industry is growing fast worldwide, recycling end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) attracts great research attention. Due to the promulgated regulations, multiple players like the last owners, manufacturers, treatment...

Hazardous healthcare waste (HCW) management system is one of the most critical urban systems affected by the COVID-19 pandemic due to the increase in waste generation rate in hospitals and medical centers dealing with infected patients as well as the degree of hazardousness of generated waste due to exposure to the virus. In this regard, waste netw...

Sustainable Last-Mile Delivery (LMD) is one of the key phases in city logistics. Micro-hubs in cities are new emerging solutions for an easier and viable last-mile delivery process. The important question in smart and modern cities is the determination of the best micro-hub location for the LMD. This paper solves the micro-hub location selection fo...

With the emergence of battery-based electric vehicles, transportation systems gradually leave using fossil fuel-based combustion engines. Due to their reasonable performance, Lithium-ion batteries have become one of the major batteries used for electric vehicles. Although these batteries are being used in most companies, their high production cost,...

This study addresses the application of the Integer Linear Programming technique for the patient Appointment Scheduling Problem (ASP). In this research, we propose a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model to formulate the problem and treat patients admitted to hospitals and stay in a queue based on their general health status (urgent or regu...

When dealing with the haziness that is intrinsic in decision analysis-driven decision making procedures, interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs) can be quite effective. Our approach to solving the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) difficulties, where all of the evidence provided by the decision-makers is demonstrated as interval-...

Enterprise sustainability is a key aim in the fourth industrial revolution era, requiring a new approach based on intelligent technologies that considers the new roles of leadership and sustainability as well as the new trends in emerging smart technologies, with a new focus on Society 5.0. Smart parking has a significant role in fostering the dete...

The application of the concept of shared mobility can mitigate numerous negative impacts of urban transportation and improve the city’s sustainability. This study aims to address and solve the problem of prioritizing sustainable mobility sharing systems to promote sustainability and foster the concept of shared mobility. Four sustainable mobility s...

Urban freight transportation requires wise management considerations since it is one of the most challenging issues cities face to attain sustainability. To help with the challenging decision process, an integrated two-stage decision analysis approach is proposed. In the first stage, the Defining Interrelationships Between Ranked criteria (DIBR) me...

This study aims to rank indicators affecting site selection of vehicle shredding facilities using an interval type-2 fuzzy sets based Delphi approach. The introduced methodology consists of four consecutive stages as follows: indicator identification, questionnaire (survey), decision-making analysis, and statistical analysis and indicator classific...

[Part of special issue: COVID-19 and Alike Crisis Control in Smart Healthy Cities] The critical worldwide problem of adapting urban transport planning to COVID-19 is for the first time comprehensively addressed and solved in this study. It primarily aims to help transport planners increase the resilience of transport systems. Firstly, a multi-level...

Environmental and social awareness are the key elements of the sustainable tire industry. End-of-life tire (ELT) waste flow is an important environmental problem worldwide since it produces severe air, water, and soil pollution issues. Significant advancements have been made in ELT management in the last few years. As a result, ELTs should not only...

Parcel lockers present an efficient solution for first- and last-mile delivery problems. They have a positive impact on the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of the parcel service industry. This paper proposes factors for locating parcel lockers. PerfoRmance IndiCator and Expert Rating (PRICER) method are presented or determining k...

For efficient management of plastic waste in urban healthcare environments, the development of in-depth solutions considering all possible effective factors is required. Recycling plastic waste of healthcare centers has become an essential process for urban regions considering environmental, economic, and social issues. Recycling facility location...

The provision of public goods is always a controversial issue in many aspects. Even some additional financial resources can provide public transit systems, the tax revenues constitute a significant part of the investments in practice. Yet, governments should make an important decision regarding tax schemes. This article focuses on how to identify t...

The pricing of public transportation services is a complex task that authorities deal with because many criteria should be considered while deciding on the pricing system. Some include decentralization of the cities due to lower rents in outer-city regions and operating costs of longer transportation lines. Hence, four alternative public transporta...

Automobile Lithium-ion battery (ALiB) is a fast-evolving technology that found widespread utilization in electric vehicles (EVs). Management of used ALiBs has become a crucial topic in the automotive industry and academic researches. ALiB remanufacturing is significant leverage to accomplish the circular economy paradigm, but many open questions st...

Background Last-mile delivery (LMD) is becoming more and more demanding due to an increasing number of users and traffic problems in cities. Besides, medical crises (like the COVID-19 outbreak) and air pollution represent additional motives for the transition from traditional to socially and environmentally sustainable LMD mode. An emerging problem...

An emerging question for waste managers is how to determine the best vehicle shredding facility location from a finite set of available alternatives under numerous conflicting criteria as well as high levels of imprecise, vague, and uncertain information. For the first time, we investigate the vehicle shredding facility location problem via the pic...

The management of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) is currently one of the most important ecological topics. The recycling process has essential importance for the environmental and economic sustainability of the ELV management. Istanbul has the highest rate of car ownership population in Turkey as well as an old vehicle fleet. There is a strong motivat...

To increase the level of safety and prevent significant accidents, it is essential to prioritize risk factors and assess railway infrastructure. The key question is how to identify unsafe railway infrastructure so authorities can undertake safety improvement projects on time. The paper aims to introduce a picture fuzzy group multi-criteria decision...

The CoCoSo (Combined Compromise Solution) approach is one of the newest multi-criteria decision-making methods which unites compromise decision-making algorithms and aggregation strategies. This method has not yet been used for solving multi-criteria decision-making problems in postal traffic. In this paper it is integrated with the Shannon entropy...

In light of the increasing importance of last-mile delivery (LMD) and the associated high costs, air pollution, and logistical challenges, research on sustainable LMD is highly trending and dynamic. The selection of sustainable LMD mode is an emerging problem for decision-makers in the logistics industry. The key question is how to determine the be...

Companies can perform their freight distribution in three different ways. The first concept, the in-house concept, represents the use of a company’s own resources and knowledge to organize transportation from the production to retailers or from the warehouse to customers. The opposite concept is to outsource distribution activities by hiring third-...

As the number of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) increases rapidly, their management has become one of the most important environmental topics worldwide. This study is conducted to evaluate various alternatives for location selection of an authorized dismantling center (ADC) for ELVs using a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach. An intuitioni...

Primena operacionih istraživanja u lokacijskoj analizi - zbirka rešenih zadataka

Primena operacionih istraživanja u lokacijskoj analizi - zbirka rešenih zadataka

Primena operacionih istraživanja u lokacijskoj analizi - zbirka rešenih zadataka

Primena operacionih istraživanja u lokacijskoj analizi - zbirka rešenih zadataka

Primena operacionih istraživanja u lokacijskoj analizi - zbirka rešenih zadataka

Waste management is gaining very high importance in recent years. As automotive is one of the most critical sectors worldwide, which is rapidly increasing, the management of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) gains importance day by day. Due to legislation and new regulations, actors like users, producers, and treatment facilities are being conferred new...

The management of end-of-life vehicles conserves natural resources, provides economic benefits, and reduces water, air and soil pollution. Sound management of end-of-life vehicles is vitally important worldwide thus requiring sophisticated decision-making tools for optimizing its efficiency and reducing system risk. This paper proposes an interval-...

This paper proposes a mixed-integer interval-parameter two-stage stochastic programming model with downside risk control for items allocation to postal operators. The proposed model is able to: (1) generate optimal long-term items allocation plans for postal operators under different target profits, control factor for limiting system risk and uncer...

Supporting information for: Simic, V. (2018). Interval-parameter conditional value-at-risk two-stage stochastic programming model for management of end-of-life vehicles. Environmental Modeling & Assessment.

Risk aversion model in item allocation to Post Shops stores is presented in this paper. Conditional Value-at-Risk method has been incorporated into the two-stage interval-stochastic programming model in order to reduce the risk of failing to attain the planned profit value and to reflect decision maker’s preference. The model efficiently indicates...

The management of end-of-life vehicles conserves natural resources, provides economic benefits, and reduces water, air and soil pollution. In an effort to adequately manage flow of end-of-life vehicles, modern infrastructure is considered a prerequisite. Thus, a development of an effective performance evaluation tool for monitoring and continuous i...

This paper proposes an integer interval two-stage stochastic programming model for allocation of parcels in postal traffic. A detailed algorithmic procedure for solving the formulated model is presented. A numerical example is provided in order to illustrate the usefulness of the developed model. The obtained results approve that the proposed model...

In the European Union, approximately 3.6 million tonnes of used tires are generated annually. Because used tires are not biodegradable, there is strong motivation to successfully manage this fast-growing waste flow. One of the most popular approaches for sustainable environmental stewardship of used tires is retreading. The problem investigated in...

Tire retreading is an economically attractive and environmentally beneficial process for extending the lifetime of used tires. It reduces the negative influence of used tires on the environment as well as natural resources exploitation. According to the latest data, 4.7 million units of used truck tires were retreaded in 2014 in Europe. This paper...

One of the main negative consequences of uncontrolled export of used vehicles from the European Union to developing countries is resource shortage for major players of European vehicle recycling systems. The resource scarcity puts serious pressure on vehicle recycling managers. An effective end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) allocation management is consi...

In Malaysia, end-of-life vehicles are not properly managed. Their number keeps growing, as reflected by the increasing number of produced and registered vehicles every year. Improper management of end-of-life vehicles endangers environment and social life in Malaysia. Excessive water, air and soil pollution are among the primary effects of improper...

As the number of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) is estimated to increase to 79.3 million units per year by 2020 (e.g., 40 million units were generated in 2010), there is strong motivation to effectively manage this fast-growing waste flow. Intensive work on management of ELVs is necessary in order to more successfully tackle this important environment...

The amount of material entering end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) management systems all over the EU has been reduced due to increased export of used vehicles to non-EU countries. According to the latest data, only 6.23 million ELVs were processed in 2012 (e.g., 8.37 million ELVs were processed in 2009). Considering that currently 342 active vehicle recy...

The amount of material entering end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) management systems all over the EU has been reduced due to increased export of used vehicles to non-EU countries. According to the latest data, only 6.23 million ELVs were processed in 2012 (e.g., 8.37 million ELVs were processed in 2009). Considering that currently 342 active vehicle recy...

The amount of material entering end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) management systems all over the EU has been reduced due to increased export of used vehicles to non-EU countries. According to the latest data, only 6.23 million ELVs were processed in 2012 (e.g., 8.37 million ELVs were processed in 2009). Considering that currently 342 active vehicle recy...

Nowadays, export of used vehicles represents the most significant barrier to the more efficient vehicle recycling in the EU, because millions of vehicles which are expected to go to domestic vehicle recycling factories are exported. As a result, how to allocate limited and frequently insufficient quantities of collected end-of-life vehicles (ELVs)...

An interval linear programming approach is used to formulate and comprehensively test a model for optimal long-term planning of vehicle recycling in the Republic of Serbia. The proposed model is applied to a numerical case study: a 4-year planning horizon (2013-2016) is considered, three legislative cases and three scrap metal price trends are anal...

At the very beginning of doctoral dissertation, applying the content analysis method gives an overview of all the subjects from the end-of-life vehicle (ELV) recycling domain that were estimated as being directly or indirectly related to the subject that the dissertation considers. The literature is organized into two main sub-areas; namely, operat...