José Holguín-Veras’s research while affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and other places

... Sustainable transport is also a component of sustainable ecosystems. The organisation of transportation in the region can decrease [91,92], or vice versa [93,94], increase the threat to the environment and correspondently affect the risks of pollution. Transport infrastructure includes vehicle transportation [95,96], micro-mobility transport [62,97], marine transportation [98,99], train and aviation transport [100,101], and the level of sustainability of transportation will affect the environment and risks of financial institutions. ...

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Impact of Geographic Location on Risks of Fintech as a Representative of Financial Institutions

... APL present a series of advantages with respect to home deliveries or even pickup points, since they can be located in public spaces and made available in large time intervals, reducing the risk of missed deliveries and allowing customers to pick the purchased goods at their hour of convenience (Gutenschwager et al., 2024). Verlinde et al. (2018) discuss the benefits of APLs with respect to home delivery, which are mainly related to traffic reduction (including double lines elimination, which is a major issue in urban traffic, Lopez et al., 2016), a logistics optimization via the decrease of failed home deliveries and, thus, avoiding re-planning, and the possibility of deploying off-hour deliveries (Wang et al., 2024). All this is leading to a cost reduction for both the e-retailers and logistics operators. ...

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The Deployment of Automated Parcel Lockers in Urban Logistics: Notions, Planning Principles, and Applications

... Agent-based models have already been proposed in the specialized HL literature. Recently, ABM have been used in search and rescue operations (Hashemipour et al., 2018;Hooshangi and Alesheikh, 2018;Bui et al., 2020); in transportation, fleet management and last mile distribution problems (Das and Hanaoka, 2014;Bae et al., 2018;Wang and Zhang, 2019); to study the effect of information sharing and crowd flows on the distribution of humanitarian aid in post disaster scenario (Liao et al., 2023); to address the issue of care for refugees based on the well-being quantification (Boshuijzen-van Burken et al., 2020); the location of temporary relief sites (Kadosh et al., 2023); to study the evacuation decision-making process supported by a multidimensional sustainability approach (Sopha et al., 2021); to evaluate the impact of different coordination scenarios on inventories in distribution centers in postdisaster environments (Lebcir and Roy, 2023); and to analyze the roles played by a cluster leader in the coordination of humanitarian agents (Ruesch et al., 2022). ...

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Coordination mechanisms applied to logistical systems for local disaster preparedness: a Latin American case

... Road characteristics: A multi-agent-based planning approach was proposed in [51] to optimise EV charging infrastructure on highways. The method assessed travel and charging activities on highways. ...

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Sustainable Mobility: Machine Learning-Driven Deployment of EV Charging Points in Dublin

... Proposition 7. Adjusting regulations to mandate minimum storage capacities and uphold safety standards in commercial premises can streamline delivery routes and alleviate congestion in L/U zones. This proposition, calling for a reassessment of municipal regulations concerning minimum storage capacities and safety standards in commercial spaces, resonates with the findings of Holguín-Veras, Rivera-González, Caron, Amaral, and Ismael (2023) and Castrellon, Sanchez-Diaz, and Kalahasthi (2023). Both studies advocate for UFD regulations that are sensitive to the local economic context and propose dynamic, real-time adaptable regulations. ...

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Tackling urban freight distribution: A public-private perspective

... In the quantitative phase, a stratified random sampling technique was used to have across gender, age, and frequency of online shopping (Kalahasthi et al., 2023). In the case of the qualitative phase, purposive sampling was adopted which means that the researcher chose the participants who would be in a position to offer ample and more relevant information in regard to their survey data (Sharp, 2003). ...

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Exploring Psychological Drivers in Dynamic Pricing and Consumer Decision Making

... Tese are service trips (business journeys) made by employees of a company to their clients, and they are service excursions that are a cross between freight and passenger transit [51,75]. 6.32 to 24.84% of all commercial trafc is made up of these [76]. Te majority of service vehicles are vans and small trucks; therefore, their size makes them less impactful than giant trucks that block highways and intersections. ...

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Towards More Sustainable Cities: Tools and Policies for Urban Goods Movements

... Ensuring that public primary school campuses are tailored to the needs of the youth is a vital step towards achieving this goal. By providing them with access to safe and stimulating indoor and outdoor spaces, study, sports, recreational facilities, and other vital amenities, we can empower them to realize their full potential [3,4]. This can help create a virtuous cycle of sustainable urban development that benefits all members of the community [5]. ...

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Evaluation of the Spatial Disparities in the Youth Suitability of Shenzhen Public Primary School Campuses

... For instance, advanced ML methods (e.g. Least Squares SVM and K-Nearest Neighbour) can be employed for data imputation to address the low resolution of the truck Global Positioning System data [205]. • ML has emerged as a prominent research area for mining production equipment management (e.g. ...

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Machine learning for open-pit mining: a systematic review

... Freight-Efficient Land Uses (FELUs) is a new concept defined by the authors as "the land-use patterns that minimize the social costs (private plus external costs) associated with both the supply chains and the economic activities that consume and produce goods, at all stages of production and consumption; including reverse and waste logistics." [1]. Achieving this goal, however, requires the implementation of land-use initiatives that seek to: ...

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Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools