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As society becomes increasingly concerned with sustainable development, the demand for high-efficiency, low-cost, and green technology makes air–land multimodal transportation one of the effective means of fast freight transportation. In the actual transportation business, some orders will have overlapping transportation routes, and transporting each order separately will result in resource waste, high costs, and carbon emissions. This paper proposes a multimodal transportation scheme optimization model considering order consolidation to improve transport efficiency and reduce costs and carbon emissions. An improved genetic algorithm incorporating the ride-sharing scheduling method is designed to solve the model. The results show that order consolidation will reduce multimodal transport costs and carbon emissions but increase transportation time slightly, and the advantages in cost and carbon emission reduction will vary with origin–destination scenarios, which are ranked in order of single-origin single-destination, single-origin multi-destinations, multi-origin single-destination, and multi-origin multi-destination. For the fourth scenario, the cost and carbon emissions decrease by 16.6% and 26.69%, respectively, and the time increases by 5.56% compared with no consolidation. For the sensibility of customer demands, it is found that order consolidation has the advantage for price-sensitive, time- and price-sensitive, and time- and carbon emission-sensitive customers; however, it is specifically beneficial for time-sensitive customers only in single-origin single-destination scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study presents a systemic and causal model of integrated stakeholder risk management of industrial facilities under sustainable development conditions. This model allows us to analyze the main factors of stakeholder influence, namely personnel risks, conflicts, and behavioral economic factors on a scientific project. This method is based on the identification of stakeholders and determining the possibility of the presence in their activities or inaction of personnel risks, conflicts, and behavioral economic factors that can affect the success of the production of industrial facilities, as well as on the calculation of toxicity indicators for each stakeholder. This study presents information technologies for the integrated management of industrial facilities in the context of sustainable development and transition to a circular economy, which, under conditions of uncertainty, allow the manager of an industrial enterprise and his team to implement the methodology of integrated management of industrial facilities in the context of sustainable development and transition to a circular economy to ensure the successful and timely implementation of these projects to meet the needs of stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stay cables exhibit both great slenderness and low damping, which make them sensitive to resonant phenomena induced by the dynamic character of external actions. Furthermore, for these same reasons, their modal properties may vary significantly while in service due to the modification of the operational and environmental conditions. In order to cope with these two limitations, passive damping devices are usually installed at these structural systems. Robust design methods are thus mandatory in order to ensure the adequate behavior of the stay cables without compromising the budget of the passive control systems. To this end, a motion-based design method under uncertainty conditions is proposed and further implemented in this paper. In particular, the proposal focuses on the robust design of different passive damping devices when they are employed to control the response of stay cables under wind-induced vibrations. The proposed method transforms the design problem into a constrained multi-objective optimization problem, where the objective function is defined in terms of the characteristic parameters of the passive damping device, together with an inequality constraint aimed at guaranteeing the serviceability limit state of the structure. The performance of the proposed method was validated via its application to a benchmark structure with vibratory problems: The longest stay cable of the Alamillo bridge (Seville, Spain) was adopted for this purpose. Three different passive damping devices are considered herein, namely: (i) viscous; (ii) elastomeric; and (iii) frictions dampers. The results obtained by the proposed approach are analyzed and further compared with those provided by a conventional method adopted in the Standards. This comparison illustrates how the newly proposed method allows reduction of the cost of the three types of passive damping devices considered in this study without compromising the performance of the structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an application of Rough Set Theory (RST) to the real estate field, in order to highlight its operational potentialities for mass appraisal purposes. RST allows one to solve the appraisal of real estate units regardless of the deterministic relationship between characteristics that contribute to the formation of the property market price and the same real estate prices. RST was applied to a real estate sample (office units located in Directional District of Naples) and was also integrated with a functional extension so-called "Valued Tolerance Relation" (VTR) in order to improve its flexibility. A multiple regression analysis (MRA) was developed on the same real estate sample with the aim to compare RST and MRA results. The case study is followed by a brief discussion on basic theoretical connotations of this methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]