GIGLIO D.

Plants manufacturing large-sized high-volume products, such as automobiles and trucks, usually encounter Multi-manned Assembly Line Balancing Problems (MALBPs). In this paper, a cost-oriented version of MALBPs, namely CMALBP, is taken into account. These types of problems may arise in the final assembly lines of products in which the...

In recent times, there have been rapid advancements in technologies that can bring about fully autonomous driving. This can potentially result in substantial changes in the road network and traffic operations. People previously not being able to travel frequently (e.g., the elderly and people with disabilities) will be able to commute...

Besides the impacts and importance in planning transportation networks, travel time reliability (TTR) is increasingly becoming a driving factor for commuting patterns. However, the implementation of TTR in route assignment is still not very common due to the discrete nature of scheduled services. Within day dynamics are usually modelled...

Coloured Petri Nets can be a valuable and powerful tool to design, analyse, and control the subsystems composing the Physical Internet, as they are able to capture the precedence relations and interactions among events which characterize the facilities and infrastructures (multimodal logistics centres and hubs, transit centres, roads and...

In the last decades, researchers, policy makers and, in general, the whole society, have devoted a growing attention to the environmental impact of traffic on air quality. In this framework, the electrification of Transit Systems (TS) can play a key factor in improving cities sustainability since it combines the good characteristics of...

In the last decades, the rise of automation and communication technologies in railway sector has boosted more and more opportunities to design new and innovative solutions to improve the trip experience of people. Among them there is the so-called virtual coupling, a promising framework where trains, automated and connected, can split and merge...

This paper proposes a model for designing a passenger railway service in the framework of a virtual coupling scenario, where automated trains can be grouped to form a convoy. In particular the proposed model considers automated carriages that can virtually split and merge together to form a train with a time-varying composition and capacity....