Diversified application scenarios and business models are effective ways to improve the utilization and economic benefits of energy storage systems. In response to the current problems of single application scenarios, high idle rates, and imperfect p...
This paper deals with a preventive maintenance strategy optimization correlated to production for a manufacturing system made by several parallel machines under lease contract. In order to minimize the total cost of production and maintenance by redu...
Empty container repositioning has always been an important problem faced by ports. In this paper, we study the multi-port empty container repositioning problem with the uncertainty of the demand and supply of empty containers in ports. First, we esta...
Leasing is an important sustainable PSS model of recycling smartphones, and they have emerged as a crucial component of retailers’ business evolution in recent times. Using hybrid selling–leasing transformations, retailers not only provid...
Carsharing is regarded as an efficient way to reduce parking difficulty and road congestion, and the sub-leasing type of round-trip carsharing is an innovative way to enhance the efficiency of carsharing. Meanwhile, with the help of sub-leasing, the...
A double-layer robust optimization method for capacity configuration of shared energy storage considering cluster leasing of wind farms in a market environment is proposed based on the autonomy and profitability of shared energy storage. The feasibil...
Construction machinery operations are intrinsically linked to critical societal challenges, including safety risks and carbon emissions. In response to the high incidence of fatal accidents during installation and dismantling phases, the Chinese gove...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vision of the upcoming society. It can provide pervasive communication between two or more entities using 4G-LTE (Long Term Evolution) communication technology. In 4G-LTE networks, there are two important problems: h...
Efficient supply–demand management in Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) markets requires tools to evaluate pricing strategies while integrating sustainability goals like reuse, efficiency, and carbon footprint reduction. This paper introduces a decla...
The bullwhip effect is the phenomenon of distorted information that causes the amplification of variability of demand in supply chains. We examine the relationship between the bullwhip effect and cost behavior using a large sample of U.S. public firm...
This study provides a systematic method for determining the proper rent fee of a port railway station with a litigation case study of Busan port container terminal. The Port Rail Station Operating Company (PRSOC) leases and operates the port railway...
Promoting sustainable production and consumption practices in the construction machinery industry is crucial for achieving energy savings and reducing carbon emissions. However, there is a lack of targeted studies addressing the challenge of scaling...
To explore the operation strategy of battery leasing and battery swapping services (the two services), this paper constructs a battery swapping supply chain consisting of the battery manufacturer and the vehicle company. Taking the battery manufactur...
As one of main challenge for carriers, empty container repositioning is subject to various uncertain factors in practice, which causes more operation costs. At the same time, the movements of empty containers can result in air pollution because of th...
Many studies have confirmed that there is demand among urban residents and renters for urban parks. Moreover, as renters and home buyers have very different levels of ownership over their housing resources, their demands for amenities can be heteroge...
As a popular transportation mode in urban regions, taxis play an essential role in providing comfortable and convenient services for travelers. For the sake of tackling the imbalance between supply and demand, taxi demand forecasting can help drivers...
In the context of economic globalization and the development of information networks, container liner transportation plays a crucial role in international trade. However, the inherent inflexibility of fixed schedules in liner operations poses challen...
Energy storage is a proficient means of enhancing power supply reliability and facilitating the use of renewable energy. To study the impact of policies on energy storage decisions in the power supply chain, this paper constructs an electricity suppl...
The roof-leased business mode is an important development method for the distributed photovoltaic (PV) systems. In this paper, the benefits of the PV energy are considered in a PV cluster (PVC) consisting of a certain number of prosumers and a PVC op...
Using an extended Fama–French model for REIT returns, we examine how the net impact of the COVID-19 pandemic differs from that of recessions. We find that, as anticipated, recessions have a negative net impact on office and residential REIT ret...
In the study of power control and allocation based on pricing, the utility of secondary users is usually studied from the perspective of the signal to noise ratio. The study of secondary user utility from the perspective of communication demand can n...
Industrialization has brought about great differences in industrial development and land use demand among different regions and cities, especially in rapidly industrializing countries with a vast territory. In those areas, implementing local-specific...
Emergency medical services (EMSs) are critical to reducing fatalities and improving patient outcomes in emergencies such as traffic accidents, where response time is a decisive factor. This study proposes a comprehensive and systematic approach to de...
A land market is emerging in Tanzania, triggered by initiatives to reform land legislation and modernize agriculture through frugal innovations, combining hybrid seeds and weather-based index insurance with the use of mobile telephones. The analysis...
This paper introduces an innovative sell-type home reversion product aimed at monetizing Singapore’s public flats, serving as a new alternative to the existing Singapore Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS). This new product not only retains the LBS&rsqu...
In this paper, we compare a multi-round, second-price, sealed-bid bundle auction and a single-item, sequential, second-price, sealed-bid auction for berth slot leasing for vessels (roll-on/roll-off passenger vessels and/or cruise ships) at a public m...
Fuelled by energy security problems and urban air pollution challenges, several countries worldwide have set the objective to gradually eliminate petrol and diesel cars. The increasing support from government and demands for environmental friendly me...
Cloud providers offer various purchasing options to enable users to tailor their costs according to their specific requirements, including on-demand, reserved instances, and spot instances. On-demand and spot instances satisfy short-term workloads, w...
Grid operators of islands with limited system tolerance are often challenged by the need to curtail wind energy in order to maintain system stability and security of supply. At the same time, and in the absence of storage facilities and/or other mean...
Floating offshore wind is being considered in northern California as indicated by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s issuance of a lease consideration in the Humboldt Call Area. Humboldt County offers access to this enormous resource, but...
Recent times have seen a significant rise in interest from mobile operators, vendors, and research projects toward achieving more energy-efficient and sustainable networks. Not surprisingly, it comes at a time when higher traffic demand and more stri...
In order to understand the driving characteristics of electric heavy-duty trucks in practical application scenarios and promote their usage to replace diesel trucks, this study analyzed the actual usage of electric and diesel heavy-duty trucks in a s...
The low-altitude economy (LAE), encompassing urban air mobility, drone logistics and sub 3000 m aerial surveillance, demands secure, intelligent infrastructures to manage increasingly complex, multi-stakeholder operations. This survey evaluates the i...
Due to the national policy of encouraging the development of power exchange modes, the reasonable planning of vehicle distribution paths to meet the demand of lithium battery power exchange points has become a topic of considerable research interest....
Offshore wind energy development along the East Coast of the US is proceeding quickly as a result of large areas with an excellent wind resource, low water depths and proximity to large electricity markets. Careful planning of wind turbine deployment...
This article examines the growing relevance of photovoltaic (PV) energy amid rising electricity demand, sustainability goals, and the need for flexible energy management in households and enterprises. It analyzes six PV business models, ownership, le...
Driven by energy transition strategies, distributed resources are being extensively integrated into the distribution network (DN). However, sufficient coordination among these resources remains challenging due to their diverse ownership structures. T...
The imbalance between supply and demand for slot resources and empty containers has led to resource waste and excessive operating costs for liner companies. Moreover, intense competition among ports has made both container ship slots and port equipme...
The built environment contributes around half of total greenhouse gas emissions and with 87% of residential buildings that we will have by 2050 already built, it is vital to adopt sustainable retrofitting practices. The question is: what are the via...
In this paper, we propose a dynamic exclusive-use spectrum access (DESA) method to improve the overall licensed millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum utilization of all mobile network operators (MNOs) in a country. By exploiting secondary spectrum tradin...
Achieving net zero relies on siting large-scale solar and wind where they are cheapest and most socially acceptable. We present a transferable, evidence-based siting framework and apply it to Australia. The landscape is divided into millions of 250 m...
This paper aims to explore corporate tenants’ considerations for office space choices at green office buildings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This study focuses on the office choice perspectives between corporate tenants at two main locations in K...
Although the Circular Economy (CE) has made remarkable technological progress by offering a wide range of alternative engineering solutions, an obstacle for its large-scale commercialization is nested in the adoption of those business and financial m...
A new requirement for the manufacturing companies in Industry 4.0 is to be flexible with respect to changes in demands, requiring them to react rapidly and efficiently on the production capacities. Together with the trend to use Service-Oriented Arch...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a significant branch of the ongoing advances in the Internet and mobile communications. Yet, the use of a large number of IoT devices can severely worsen the spectrum scarcity problem. The usable spectrum resources are...
As global climate change intensifies, research on low-carbon practices has become a critical component of sustainable tourism development. The carbon emission profile of ski tourism differs significantly from other tourism sectors. Ski resorts have a...