Smart Mobility and Logistics Lab
SML Lab aims at facilitating and stimulating collaboration among faculty, students, and practitioners to foster continuous learning and translating knowledge into innovative solutions for making transport and logistics more efficient, smarter, greener, and safer.

Transport and logistics planning is extremely important in particular for Turkey. Current development plans highlight the need for modern and reliable transportation systems, and aim at transforming Turkey to a global logistic hub, both for materials and energy flows, at the crossroads of three continents. Moreover, the traffic volume in all sorts of transport modes has increased rapidly, particularly in metropolitan areas like Istanbul. There have been a lot of investments to improve the infrastructure. Thus, the efficient use and planning of the resources is an important and challenging task. Moreover, developing effective plans is essentially a national priority due to the high likelihood of serious natural disasters.

Smart Mobility and Logistics Lab (SML) in Sabancı University focuses on transport logistics and mobility planning including urban transport, first-mile, long-distance and last-mile pickup/delivery operations, humanitarian logistics, electro-mobility, and sustainable logistics chains. SML team is equipped with extensive domain knowledge in logistics and transportation research and experienced in addressing multifaceted problems through systematic modeling approaches and effective solution methods using operations research tools and techniques. The Lab conducts research projects particularly on urban mobility, humanitarian logistics, and sustainable transport planning with a special emphasis on route optimization, electrification of logistics vehicles, battery performance analysis.

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Research Team

Bülent Çatay

SU, Industrial Engineering

Tonguç Ünlüyurt

SU, Industrial Engineering

Tuğçe Yüksel

SU, Mechatronics Engineering

Esra Koca

SU, Industrial Engineering

Duygu Taş Küten

SU, Industrial Engineering

İhsan Sadati

SU, Industrial Engineering

Dr. Eren İnci

SU, Economics

Abdullah Daşçı

SU, Operations Management

Tevhide Altekin

SU, Operations Management

Network Researchers

Sina Rastani

Univ of Sheffield

Merve Keskin

Univ of Sheffield

Former Researchers

Gizem Özbaygın

Bilkent University

Güvenç Şahin

Amazon Germany

Nilay Noyan [CV]

Amazon USA

Students

Nozir Shokirov

PhD Candidate

Raci Berk İslim

PhD Candidate

Arghavan Sharafi

PhD Candidate

Mert Özçelik

PhD Student

İbrahim Enes Yavaş

MSc Student

M. Nosrati Zegoloujeh

MSc Student

Aksel Akmercan

MSc Student

Başak Çarhacıoğlu

MSc Student

Emir Tiryaki

MSc Student

Funding available for outstanding MSc and PhD students

Projects

Publications

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Book Chapters
  • Rastani S, Yüksel T, Çatay B (2020) Electric vehicle routing problem with time windows and cargo weight. In: Golinska-Dawson P., Tsai KM., Kosacka-Olejnik M. (eds.), Smart and Sustainable Supply Chain and Logistics – Trends, Challenges, Methods and Best Practices. EcoProduction (Environmental Issues in Logistics and Manufacturing), Switzerland, 175–190.
Conference Papers
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  • Keskin M, Çatay B (2015) The electric vehicle routing problem: Outlook and recharging strategies. In: U Aydın et al. (eds.), 13th International Logistics and Supply Chain Congress, Izmir, Turkey, 828–838.
  • Kleiner F, Özdemir ED, Schmid SA, Beermann M, Çatay B, Moran B, Lim OT, Friedrich HE (2015) Electrification of transport logistic vehicles: A techno-economic assessment of battery and fuel cell electric transporter. 28th International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition (EVS28), Goyang, South Korea.
  • Özdemir ED, Kleiner F, Beermann M, Çatay B, Beers E, Moran B, Lim OT, Schmid SA (2015) Status and trends for electrified transport logistic vehicles. 2015 European Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Congress (EEVC 2015), Brussels, Belgium.
  • Shi W, Weise T, Chiong R, Çatay B (2015) Hybrid PACO with enhanced pheromone initialization for solving the vehicle routing problem with time windows. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2015), Cape Town, South Africa, 1735–1742. >
  • Tozlu B, Daldal R, Ünlüyurt T, Çatay B (2015) Crew constrained home care routing problem with time windows. 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2015), Cape Town, South Africa, 1751-1757.
  • Yıldırım UM, Çatay B (2015) An ant colony-based matheuristic approach for solving a class of vehicle routing problems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9335, 105–119.

Dissertations & Theses

Ahmadi Basir, Saeedeh (2024)

The periodic vehicle routing problem with visual attractiveness and driver consistency considerations

Supervisors: G. Tiniç, G. Şahin

Digehsara, Amin Ahmadi (2022)

Multi-period line planning in public transportation

Supervisors: G. Şahin, R. Borndörfer

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia

Duman, Ece Naz (2022)

Column generation-based methods for the electric vehicle routing problems with time windows

Supervisors: B. Çatay, D. Taş Küten

Senior Operations Research Specialist, ICRON

Rastani, Sina (2020)

Route planning of electric freight vehicles by considering internal and environmental conditions

Supervisor: B. Çatay

Assistant Professor, Sheffield University Management School

Keskin, Merve (2018)

Recharge strategies for the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows in deterministic and stochastic environments

Supervisor: B. Çatay

Assistant Professor, Sheffield University Management School

Özçelik, Mert (2024)

Estimating greenhouse gas emissions of electric delivery trucks

Supervisors: T. Yüksel, S. Yıldırım

PhD Student, Sabancı University

İyican, Çağrı Doğuş (2023)

Two-echelon location routing problem with multiple trips

Supervisor: E. Koca

Doğan, İsmail Gökay (2022)

Two-echelon distribution network design with collaboration among carriers

Supervisor: E. Koca

Doğan, Oğulcan (2022)

A comparative analysis on undirected cut-based formulations of periodic vehicle routing problem

Supervisor: G. Tiniç

İslim, Raci Berk (2022)

Charge scheduling and route planning of electric freight vehicles effects considering battery degradation

Supervisor: B. Çatay

PhD Student, Sabancı University

Moradi, Nima (2022)

Last mile delivery routing problem using autonomous electric vehicles

Supervisors: B. Çatay, MEH Sadati

PhD Student, Concordia University

Eğer, Zekeriya Ender (2021)

Reinforcement learning based energy management strategy for fuel cell hybrid vehicles

Supervisors: T. Yüksel, S. Yeşilyurt

Ardebili, Yasaman Karimian Hadi (2020)

Alternative formulations and solution approaches for distribution network design with seasonality

Supervisors: G. Şahin, F.T. Altekin

PhD Student, Technical University of Munich

Özyavaş, Pınar (2020)

Vehicle relocation problems in free-floating car sharing systems

Supervisor: G. Tiniç

PhD Student, University of Groningen

Karadeniz-Alver, Özlem (2018)

A multi-criteria reverse logistics network design for waste electrical and electronic equipment

Supervisors: B. Çatay, B. Ayvaz

PhD Student, Özyeğin University

Mutlu, Aysun (2018)

Revenue-driven dynamic pricing and operational planning in multimodal freight transportation

Supervisors: B. Çatay, Y. Kayıkçı

PhD Student, McGill University

Çakmak, Umut Can (2017)

Traffic speed prediction with neural networks

Supervisor: B. Çatay

The Logic Factory, Netherlands

Shokirov, Nozir (2017)

A variable neighborhood search approach for solving the crew constrained home care routing problem

Supervisors: B. Çatay, T. Ünlüyurt

PhD Student, Sabanci University

Tanoumand, Neda (2017)

A branch-and-price algorithm for resource constrained vehicle routing problem with time windows

Supervisor: T. Ünlüyurt

PhD Student, University of Toronto

Elçi, Özgün (2016)

Chance-constrained stochastic programming models for humanitarian relief network design

Supervisors: N. Noyan Bülbül, K. Bülbül

PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University

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