PROJECTS
Title: A New Perspective on City Logistics: Concepts, Theory, and Models for Designing and Managing Logistics as a Service
Acronym: GoodMobility
Objective: Cities are undergoing significant changes in the mobility of goods, which has profound implications. However, the current city logistics (CL) paradigm fails to recognize the mobility of goods as a public need, hindering our ability to address these challenges and opportunities. The EU-funded GoodMobility project proposes a network-centric approach called Wise Logistics, which prioritizes public value over current techno-business-centric Smart thinking. The project aims to establish a logistics web with the necessary hardware and software to create logistics as a service and set the foundation for a new CL theory. This shift in thinking could help cities better understand and respond to the changing nature of goods mobility.
Funding Agency: European Research Council (STG 2022)
Start: 01 January 2023
Expected finish: 31 December 2027
Title:Network design and management problems for social aid distribution operations
Objective: The lack of an infrastructure to facilitate the fast and economical distribution of social aids is one of the main obstacles to enhancing the scope and the quality of the social aid efforts, which constitute one of the main pillars of solidarity and unity in our societies. Especially in large cities, the difficulties related to last-mile delivery operations (high economic and environmental cost) results in spending a significant part of the aid resources for delivery expenditures or blocking a substantial in-kind donation potential. In this project, we aim to address this critical issue and propose to develop a novel social aid distribution network that takes advantage of the emerging smart transportation applications. For the first time in the literature, we propose to use existing public transit (PT) systems to constitute a backbone network to transfer in-kind donations in an urban area and place collection/transshipment centers in the selected PT stations to facilitate transportation of goods between origins/destination points of the donations and the public transit system by the volunteer couriers.
Funding Agency: TUBİTAK (1001 Programme)
Start: 01 April 2022
Expected finish: 31 March 2025
Title: Shared Network Design and Management for Package Delivery
Objective: Increasing urbanization and up surging e-commerce are pushing the cities’ logistics systems to (or beyond) their limits. As traffic jams and air pollution threatens city dwellers’ health, productivity and the quality of life, increasing transportation costs are putting more pressure on the businesses every day. The ineffective use of available vehicles/transportation systems (private vehicles, public transportation systems, delivery vehicles of local retail stores, etc.) is one of the main sources for the problem. Enabled by the recent developments in the communications and mobile device technologies, shared transportation networks (STN) arises as an innovative solution approach to eliminate those inefficiencies by utilizing the vehicles/transportation-system’s redundant capacities to perform package deliveries on their routes, whenever their schedules are available. In this project, our goal is to analyze the potential economic, social and environmental benefits of STN and investigate the network design and network management mechanisms that would maximize those benefits.
Funding Agency: TUBİTAK (3502 Programme)
Start: 01 April 2019
Finish: 31 March 2022