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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Overview

Pitu B. Mirchandani is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans 17 publications in Engineering and 6 in Business and Management.

Their research primarily focuses on topics including:

  • Facility Location and Emergency Management
  • UAV Applications and Optimization
  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Traffic Control and Management
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Technology Use by Older Adults

Subfields of study that Mirchandani has contributed to include:

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering

Recent publications highlight a focus on logistics, drone fleet management, emergency delivery, and transportation research. Notable papers include:

  • "Logistics for a fleet of drones for medical item delivery: A case study for Louisville, KY" (2021, Computers & Operations Research)
  • "Drone logistics for uncertain demand of disaster-impacted populations" (2022, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies)
  • "Locating platforms and scheduling a fleet of drones for emergency delivery of perishable items" (2022, Computers & Industrial Engineering)
  • "Integrated vehicle assignment and routing for system-optimal shared mobility planning with endogenous road congestion" (2020, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies)
  • "Decreasing Loneliness and Social Disconnectedness among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Potential of Information and Communication Technologies and Ride-Hailing Services" (2020, Activities Adaptation & Aging)

Mirchandani has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Zabih Ghelichi, Monica Gentili, Alessandro Agnetis, Jiangtao Liu, and Xuesong Zhou.

Their work has been published in various venues, with recurring contributions to:

  • Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • Computers & Industrial Engineering
  • Activities Adaptation & Aging
  • Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management

In 2015, Pitu B. Mirchandani was recognized as a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Best Publications

  • A REAL-TIME TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL SYSTEM: ARCHITECTURE, ALGORITHMS, AND ANALYSIS

    Pitu Mirchandani;Larry Head

  • Scheduling Problems with Two Competing Agents

    Allesandro Agnetis;Pitu B. Mirchandani;Dario Pacciarelli;Andrea Pacifici

  • Modeling and Analysis for Hazardous Materials Transportation: Risk Analysis, Routing/Scheduling and Facility Location

    George F. List;Pitu B. Mirchandani;Mark A. Turnquist;Konstantinos G. Zografos

  • Generalized Traffic Equilibrium with Probabilistic Travel Times and Perceptions

    Pitu Mirchandani;Hossein Soroush

  • An Integrated Network/Planar Multiobjective Model for Routing and Siting for Hazardous Materials and Wastes

    George F. List;Pitu Mirchandani

  • Locations of Medians on Stochastic Networks

    Pitu B. Mirchandani;Amedeo R. Odoni

  • Locating sensors on traffic networks: Models, challenges and research opportunities

    M. Gentili;Pitu Mirchandani

  • An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the Electric Vehicle Scheduling Problem

    M. Wen;E. Linde;S. Ropke;P. Mirchandani

  • Shortest distance and reliability of probabilistic networks

    Pitu B. Mirchandani

  • Methods of analyzing traffic imagery collected from aerial platforms

    Alejandro Angel;Mark Hickman;Pitu Mirchandani;Dinesh Chandnani

  • Real-time vehicle rerouting problems with time windows

    Jing Quan Li;Pitu B. Mirchandani;Denis Borenstein

  • HIERARCHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-TIME TRAFFIC CONTROL

    K Larry Head;Pitu B Mirchandani;Dennis Sheppard

  • ACS-LITE ALGORITHMIC ARCHITECTURE: APPLYING ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY TO CLOSED-LOOP TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

    Felipe Luyanda;Douglas Gettman;Larry Head;Steven Shelby

  • RHODES to intelligent transportation systems

    P. Mirchandani;Fei-Yue Wang

  • Model Reference Adaptive Control Framework for Real-Time Traffic Management under Emergency Evacuation

    Henry X. Liu;Jeff X. Ban;Wenteng Ma;Pitu B. Mirchandani

  • Path Preferences and Optimal Paths in Probabilistic Networks

    Amir Eiger;Pitu B. Mirchandani;Hossein Soroush

  • A Lagrangian Heuristic for the Real-Time Vehicle Rescheduling Problem

    Jing Quan Li;Pitu B. Mirchandani;Denis Borenstein

  • Locating Active Sensors on Traffic Networks

    Monica Gentili;Pitu B. Mirchandani

  • Online routing and battery reservations for electric vehicles with swappable batteries

    Jonathan D. Adler;Pitu B. Mirchandani

  • Online Behavior-Robust Feedback Information Routing Strategy for Mass Evacuation

    Yi-Chang Chiu;P.B. Mirchandani

  • Optimal paths in probabilistic networks: A case with temporary preferences

    Pitu B. Mirchandani;Hossein Soroush

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry X. Liu
Henry X. Liu University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Fei-Yue Wang
Fei-Yue Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xuesong Zhou
Xuesong Zhou Arizona State University
Dario Pacciarelli
Dario Pacciarelli Roma Tre University
Hani S. Mahmassani
Hani S. Mahmassani Northwestern University
Bin Ran
Bin Ran University of Wisconsin–Madison
Guoliang Xue
Guoliang Xue Arizona State University
Treavor H. Boyer
Treavor H. Boyer Arizona State University
A. Terry Bahill
A. Terry Bahill University of Arizona

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