Abstract: Taxi-ridesharing systems are considered an important means for sustainable urban transport. Previous literature shows that introducing meeting points in ridesharing, where customers are picked up and dropped off, increases its performance. We consider an on-demand taxi-ridesharing system, where the focus lies on the anticipatory assignment of customers to meeting points. We model the problem as a sequential decision process with the…

Abstract: Literature reviews represent a key genre for preserving and developing knowledge in many scientific fields, including the operations research (OR) discipline. Although the body of OR reviews shows a large diversity in terms of entities investigated, methodologies applied, and contributions developed, our discipline has been rather silent on the genre of literature reviews. As a consequence, the OR field misses (1) a classification of…

Abstract: The overall quality of last-mile delivery in terms of operational costs and customer satisfaction is primarily affected by traditional logistics planning and the consideration and integration of driver knowledge and behavior. However, this integration has yet to be exploited. This phenomenon is mirrored in two largely separated research bodies on logistics planning and driver behavior. Bridging this gap by using and integrating…

Am 18.03.2023 hat Herr Schryen im Deutschlanfunk ein Interview gegeben, in dem er erläutert, wie Universitäten, IT-Unternehmen  und Hilfsorgnisationen im Forschungsprojekt KatHelfer-PRO gemeinsam einen Cloud-Service entwickeln, der hilfsbereite Menschen schnell koordinieren und zielgerichtet einsetzen kann. Das gesamte Interview ist auf der Seite des Deutschlandfunk zu hören. 

Im Interview für den LinkedIn-Kanal der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften hat Herr Prof. Dr. Guido Schryen interessante Einblicke in seine Forschungsarbeit im Bereich der Katastrophenhilfe gegeben und zeigt, wie wichtig neben der Breitschaft der Menschen zu helfen, die Organisation und Koordination ist und was die Wissenschaft dazu beitragen kann. Lesen Sie das ganze Interview hier!