Publications by authors named "Ardavan Babaei"

Predicting incident duration and understanding incident types are essential in traffic management for resource optimization and disruption minimization. Precise predictions enable the efficient deployment of response teams and strategic traffic rerouting, leading to reduced congestion and enhanced safety. Furthermore, an in-depth understanding of incident types helps in implementing preventive measures and formulating strategies to alleviate their influence on road networks.

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic brought numerous societal, economic, and environmental challenges, exacerbated by the emergence of new variants of concern (VOCs) since 2020.
  • To address these issues, the article introduces the Variant-Informed Decision Support System (VIDSS), which uses multi-attribute decision-making techniques to evaluate country's performance and adapt to the unique features of different VOCs.
  • The study highlights the effectiveness of VIDSS in predicting future variants through transfer learning and rigorous validation, emphasizing key factors like vaccination rates and hospital admissions that are crucial for informing pandemic strategies.
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This study proposes a decision support framework (DSF) based on two data envelopment analysis (DEA) models in order to evaluate the urban road transportation of countries for sustainable performance management during different years. The first model considers different years independently while the second model, which is a type of network model, takes into account all the years integrated. A multi-objective programming model under two types of uncertainties is then developed to solve the proposed DEA models based on a revised multi-choice goal programming (GP) approach.

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Due to the growing population and demand, transportation planning has received special importance in the context of supply chain management. One of the major challenges in transportation planning is the traffic problem. This challenge affects the safety, environmental, and efficiency factors of transportation systems.

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With the development of communication infrastructure, the design of supply chains has changed significantly. Blockchain technology, as one of the most cutting-edge technologies, can promote transparency among members of the supply chain network. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that tries to develop a novel bi-objective optimization model to integrate the transparency resulting from the use of blockchain for designing a three-level supply chain network.

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This work aims to design a sustainable two-echelon supply chain not only based on the widely used cost perspective, but also based on the efficient use and preservation of limited resources. For this purpose, a branch and efficiency (B&E) algorithm is developed, which includes an optimization model and an evaluation model. The proposed tri-objective optimization model simultaneously minimizes the total cost of the supply chain, maximizes the sustainability score, and minimizes inequity among customers.

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