Diana Rita Ramos Jorge
Assistant Professor
Instituto Superior Técnico
Diana Jorge received the M.S. degree in Civil Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Transportation Systems (MIT|Portugal Program) from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She worked for two logistics consultancy companies in the Netherlands as well as a real time delivery company in the UK. She has several papers published in international journals. The focus of her work/research is the optimization of different problems, such as routing and assignment, with applications to logistics and transportation (e.g., carsharing, aviation and waste management).
Publications
International Transactions in Operational Research | 2024
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies | 2024
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review | 2024
Omega (United Kingdom) | 2023
International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics | 2023
Research Groups
Projects
WSmart Route+ : Towards a Smart Waste Collection Route Planning System
The WSmart Route+ project studies a new paradigm on smart waste management. Data analytics combined with route optimization will be explored to improve waste collection operation supporting the adoption of a smart waste collection based on dynamic routes as opposed to the traditional blind collection that is based on static routes. Everyday thousands of kilometres are travelled to collect tonnes of waste with high uncertainty on the amount of waste in each bin, a fact that can lead to inefficient collection operations where resources are used to collect often a small amount of waste.