• A Framework to Model and Compare Rest Break Policies in Logistics Industry 

      Eskandarzadeh, Saman; Fahimnia, Behnam
      Published 2021
      Carriers and postal companies are under increasing pressure to reduce their operating costs and increase efficiency. One way to reduce costs is to improve the utilisation of drivers’ working hours by employing more efficient ...
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    • How green is a lean supply chain? 

      Fahimnia, Behnam; Sarkis, Joseph; Eshragh, Ali
      Published 2014-12-01
      This article presents a supply chain planning model that can be used to investigate tradeoffs between cost and environmental degradation including carbon emissions, energy consumption and waste generation. The model also ...
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    • How the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of transportation research: An integrative scoping review and roadmap for future research 

      Haghani, Milad; Merkert, Rico; Behnood, Ali; De Gruyter, Chris; Kazemzadeh, Khashayar; Ghaderi, Hadi; Shahhoseini, Zahra; Thai, Vinh; Irannezhad, Elnaz; Fahimnia, Behnam; Waller, S Travis; Hensher, David A
      Published 2022-06-27
      In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars across all domains of science and engineering mobilised their efforts to address its far-reaching societal problems. Transportation researchers were no exemption. With mobility ...
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    • Managing and measuring sustainability performance of supply chains 

      Varsei, Mohsen; Soosay, Claudine; Fahimnia, Behnam; Sarkis, Joseph
      Published 2014-06-01
      Sustainable development from an industrial perspective has extended beyond organisational boundaries to incorporate a supply chain approach. This paper provides a framework which can assist focal companies in development ...
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    • Modelling and Performance Evaluation of Containerised Parcel Delivery 

      Eskandarzadeh, Saman; Fahimnia, Behnam
      Published 2024-01-08
      This paper investigates different factors that affect the performance of containerised transportation in parcel delivery networks. Motivated by a situation facing a postal delivery company in Australia, we study how container ...
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    • A multi-cut L-shaped method for resilient and responsive supply chain network design 

      Sabouhi, Fatemeh; Jabalameli, Mohammad Saeed; Jabbarzadeh, Armin; Fahimnia, Behnam
      Published 2020
      We present a stochastic optimisation model that can be used to design a resilient supply chain operating under random disruptions. The model aims to determine sourcing and network design decisions that minimise the expected ...
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    • A resilient and sustainable supply chain: Is it affordable? 

      Fahimnia, Behnam; Jabbarzadeh, Armin
      Published 2015-06-01
      Developing environmentally and socially sustainable supply chains has become an integral part of corporate strategy for virtually every industry. However, little is understood about the broader impacts of sustainability ...
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    • Supply Chain Carbon Management 

      Goodarzi, Shadi; Fahimnia, Behnam; Sarkis, Joseph
      Published 2019-04-01
      Sustainable supply chain and carbon management have seen a growing interest in the last decade due to the increasing concerns about global warming and climate change. Policymakers, researchers, and executives have taken ...
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    • Supply Chain Greening versus Resilience 

      Fahimnia, Behnam; Jabbarzadeh, Armin; Sarkis, Joseph
      Published 2016-09-01
      The relationship between supply chain resilience and environmental sustainability (greening) has been a topic of peripheral discussion in the research literature. The aim in this paper is to investigate, from a supply chain ...
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    • Sustainability Analysis under Disruption Risks 

      Fahimnia, Behnam; Jabbarzadeh, Armin; Sabouhi, Fatemeh
      Published 2017-11-01
      Resilience to disruptions and sustainability are both of paramount importance to supply chains. This paper presents a hybrid methodology for the design of a sustainable supply network that performs resiliently in the face ...
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    • What it takes to design a supply chain resilient to major disruptions and recurrent interruptions 

      Fahimnia, Behnam; Jabbarzadeh, Armin
      Published 2016-07-01
      Global supply chains are more than ever under threat of major disruptions caused by devastating natural and man-made disasters as well as recurrent interruptions caused by variations in supply and demand. This paper presents ...
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