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Bahar Y. Kara

Bahar Y. Kara

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
42
Citations
8117
World Ranking
6476
National Ranking
30

Overview

Bahar Y. Kara is affiliated with Bilkent University in Turkey and focuses research primarily within the fields of Engineering and Business, Management and Accounting. Their scholarly output spans multiple subfields, including Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Aerospace Engineering, Building and Construction, and Transportation.

The scientist's research topics concentrate largely on Facility Location and Emergency Management, Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods, UAV Applications and Optimization, Municipal Solid Waste Management, Transportation Planning and Optimization, Urban and Freight Transport Logistics, and Optimization and Mathematical Programming.

Recent published papers cover diverse areas within operational research and logistics. Notable works include:

  • "Perspectives on modeling hub location problems," 2020, European Journal of Operational Research
  • "Humanitarian facility location under uncertainty: Critical review and future prospects," 2021, Omega
  • "Minimizing energy and cost in range-limited drone deliveries with speed optimization," 2021, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
  • "Drones for relief logistics under uncertainty after an earthquake," 2023, European Journal of Operational Research
  • "Operational Research: methods and applications," 2023, Journal of the Operational Research Society

Publication venues with frequent contributions include:

  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Transportation Research Part B Methodological
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
  • OR Spectrum

Collaborative work is significant in this scientist's profile, with frequent coauthors being Özlem Karsu, James F. Campbell, Okan Dükkancı, Zehranaz Dönmez, and Gilbert Laporte.

Best Publications

  • Network hub location problems : The state of the art

    Sibel A. Alumur;Bahar Yetis Kara

  • Designing a Road Network for Hazardous Materials Transportation

    Bahar Y. Kara;Vedat Verter

  • A new model for the hazardous waste location-routing problem

    Sibel A. Alumur;Bahar Yetis Kara

  • Energy minimizing vehicle routing problem

    Imdat Kara;Bahar Y. Kara;M. Kadri Yetis

  • Locating temporary shelter areas after an earthquake: A case for Turkey

    Fırat Kılcı;Bahar Yetiş Kara;Burçin Bozkaya

  • Multimodal hub location and hub network design

    Sibel A. Alumur;Bahar Y. Kara;Oya E. Karasan

  • The design of single allocation incomplete hub networks

    Sibel A. Alumur;Bahar Y. Kara;Oya E. Karasan

  • On the single-assignment p-hub center problem☆

    Bahar Yetis Kara;Bahar Yetis Kara;Barbaros Ç. Tansel

  • A tabu-search based heuristic for the hub covering problem over incomplete hub networks

    Hatice Calık;Sibel A. Alumur;Bahar Y. Kara;Oya E. Karasan

  • Hierarchical multimodal hub location problem with time-definite deliveries

    Sibel A. Alumur;Hande Yaman;Bahar Y. Kara

  • The single-assignment hub covering problem: Models and linearizations

    Bahar Yetis Kara;Barbaros C. Tansel

  • A hub covering model for cargo delivery systems

    Pinar Z. Tan;Bahar Y. Kara

  • Perspectives on modeling hub location problems

    Sibel A. Alumur;James F. Campbell;Iván A. Contreras;Bahar Yetis Kara

  • A Path-Based Approach for Hazmat Transport Network Design

    Vedat Verter;Bahar Y. Kara

  • A GIS-based framework for hazardous materials transport risk assessment.

    Vedat Verter;Bahar Y. Kara

  • The Latest Arrival Hub Location Problem

    Bahar Y. Kara;Barbaros Ç. Tansel

  • Accurate calculation of hazardous materials transport risks

    B. Y. Kara;E. Erkut;V. Verter

  • The latest arrival hub location problem for cargo delivery systems with stopovers

    Hande Yaman;Bahar Y. Kara;Barbaros Ç. Tansel

  • Designing emergency response networks for hazardous materials transportation

    Oded Berman;Vedat Verter;Bahar Yetis Kara

  • Benefits of transmission switching and energy storage in power systems with high renewable energy penetration

    Meltem Peker;Ayse Selin Kocaman;Bahar Y. Kara

  • A hub covering model for cargo delivery systems

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  • Industrial Engineering : Management, Tools, and Applications, Three Volume Set

    Bopaya Bidanda;Ihsan Sabuncuoglu;Bahar Y. Kara

Frequent Co-Authors

Ihsan Sabuncuoglu
Ihsan Sabuncuoglu Abdullah Gül University
Vedat Verter
Vedat Verter Queen's University
Tolga Bektaş
Tolga Bektaş University of Liverpool
Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama
Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama University of Sheffield
Hande Yaman
Hande Yaman KU Leuven
Gilbert Laporte
Gilbert Laporte HEC Montréal
Oded Berman
Oded Berman University of Toronto
Erhan Erkut
Erhan Erkut MEF University
Rajan Batta
Rajan Batta University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Morton E. O'Kelly
Morton E. O'Kelly The Ohio State University

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