Logistics · Operations research

Pouria Tajasob

PhD candidate working on optimization for last-mile delivery, transportation and supply chains.

Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran · Institute for Transport and Logistics Management, WU Vienna

About

I am a PhD candidate at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), affiliated with the Institute for Transport and Logistics Management at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. I build optimization models for logistics: how to route vehicles, where to place facilities and how to recover schedules, so that goods arrive on time, at lower cost and with less environmental impact.

Much of my recent work is on healthcare logistics, such as medicine delivery and automated medicine lockers, and on fleets that have to cope with uncertainty, from electric motorcycles that swap batteries during emergency operations to container ships recovering from disruptions.

Research

  • Last-mile delivery

    Crowdsourced delivery, location routing with soft time windows, and automated medicine lockers.

  • Transportation

    Emergency routing of electric fleets with battery swapping, and schedule recovery in maritime shipping.

  • Supply chain management

    Sustainable production and distribution planning, including aggregate production planning under uncertainty.

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles. Titles link to the published version.

2026 2 articles

  1. Optimizing sustainable healthcare location routing problem: Incorporating triage, automated medicine lockers, and soft time windows

    Z. Samadi Bahrami, P. Tajasob, S.M.J. Mirzapour Al-e-Hashem

    PLOS ONE, 21(5), e0349445

    doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0349445Open access

  2. Sentiment analysis of the 2024 Paris Olympics using RoBERTa language model

    M. Ghafouri Yazdi, H. Rafieizadeh, P. Tajasob

    International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 17(1), 133–160

    doi:10.1108/IJEFM-01-2025-0007

2025 4 articles

  1. Dynamic emergency routing problem for electric motorcycle fleets under uncertain conditions considering battery swapping

    P. Tajasob, S.M.J. Mirzapour Al-e-Hashem, S. Karimi, S. Mansour

    Computers & Industrial Engineering, 208, 111406

    doi:10.1016/j.cie.2025.111406

  2. A crowdsourcing-based vehicle routing problem for combined prescription pickup and medicine delivery

    M. Rezakhanloo, P. Tajasob, S.M.J. Mirzapour Al-e-Hashem, S. Mansour

    Operations Research, Data Analytics and Logistics, 45, 200487

    doi:10.1016/j.ordal.2025.200487

  3. Optimizing maritime transport schedule recovery strategies: A novel approach for speeding up and port-skipping in case of disruption

    R. Purshamsian, S.M.J. Mirzapour Al-e-Hashem, A. Esfahanipour, P. Tajasob

    Multimodal Transportation, 100233

    doi:10.1016/j.multra.2025.100233Open access

  4. Challenges, opportunities, and future research directions of aggregate production planning: A state-of-the-art analysis of sustainability, uncertainty, and case studies

    K. Raoufi, P. Tajasob, S.M.J. Mirzapour Al-e-Hashem, M. Akbari Jokar

    Journal of Cleaner Production, 489, 144686

    doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.144686

Contact

For research collaboration or questions about my papers, email is the best way to reach me.