Joyce Zhang

Assessing the impacts of last mile delivery strategies on delivery vehicles and traffic network performance

JE Muriel, L Zhang, JC Fransoo, R Perez-Franco

Journal article  |  2022  |  Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Urban freight is growing fast, and its adverse effects bring consequences for the residents, the environment, and the liveability ..

Crowdsourced last-mile delivery with parcel lockers

H Ghaderi, L Zhang, PW Tsai, J Woo

Journal article  |  2022  |  International Journal of Production Economics

Crowdshipping is increasingly known as a sustainable solution to address the challenges of last mile delivery (LMD) in urban areas..

An integrated crowdshipping framework for green last mile delivery

H Ghaderi, PW Tsai, L Zhang, A Moayedikia

Journal article  |  2022  |  Sustainable Cities and Society

Sustainable urban freight transport is a key element of the smart city concept. In this context, the availability of large number ..

An Overview of Agent-Based Models for Transport Simulation and Analysis

J Huang, Y Cui, L Zhang, W Tong, Y Shi, Z Liu

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Advanced Transportation

This article presents an overview of the agent-based modeling and simulation approach and its recent developments in transport fie..

A Multi-Objective Discrete Social Engineering Optimizer for a Disassembly Line Balancing Problem

G Tian, C Zhang, L Zhang, G Yuan, Q Kang

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  ICNSC 2022 - Proceedings of 2022 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control: Autonomous Intelligent Systems

Product disassembly is the key part of recycling and remanufacturing. Disassembly line balancing problem (DLBP) is an important pa..

Improve urban traffic efficiency with prohibiting left-turn policy

Meng-Qin Cheng, Lele Zhang, Xue-Dong Hu, Mao-Bin Hu

Journal article  |  2021  |  MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS B

Enhancing traffic flow plays an important role in the traffic management of urban arterial networks. The policy of prohibiting lef..

An agent-based model for real-time bus stop-skipping and holding schemes

Lele Zhang, Jiangyan Huang, Zhiyuan Liu, Hai L Vu

Journal article  |  2021  |  TRANSPORTMETRICA A-TRANSPORT SCIENCE

This paper develops a real-time agent-based simulation model to optimize the dynamic bus stop-skipping and holding schemes. The pr..

Spatiotemporal exploration of Melbourne pedestrian demand

Laura Mali Pfiester, Russell G Thompson, Lele Zhang

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHY

Creating a cityscape conducive to a safe and efficient pedestrian experience requires a holistic understanding of the relationship..

Resilience planning for Physical Internet enabled hyperconnected production-inventory-distribution systems

Xiaoshuai Peng, Shoufeng Ji, Russell G Thompson, Lele Zhang

Journal article  |  2021  |  COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Based on the Internet of Things, standard coordination protocol, smart containers and other key foundations, the Physical Internet..

Self-Optimizing Traffic Light Control Using Hybrid Accelerated Extremum Seeking

F Galarza-Jimenez, JI Poveda, R Kutadinata, L Zhang, E Dall'Anese

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Motivated by the shallow concavity properties that emerge in certain response maps in the context of optimization problems in tran..