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Topics
Food; Home Health Care; Disaster Relief; Horizontal Cooperation In Logistics; Miscellaneous
Individual Articles
Food
 Cramer, F, Fikar, C, Rainer, G (in press) Responsiveness-related trade-offs for sustainable operations in perishable goods supply chains. International Journal of Production Research. [Link to Publication] |
 Dzankovic, A, Fikar, C, Müller, B (2025) Determinants of Productivity and Economic Performance of Smallholder Tomato Farmers in Ethiopia: A Comparative Gross Margin Analysis. International Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources 52 (3), 115-132. |
 Mendoza Pardo, C, Fikar, C (2025) Impact of digital logistics platforms to facilitate more regional food in the hospitality sector and communal catering. The International Journal of Logistics Management 36 (2), 413-432. |
 Loacker, P, Pöchträger, S, Fikar, C (2025) Discrete-event simulation to analyse the impacts of a reduced minimum order quantity in the food industry: proposing a shared-savings contract. Journal of Simulation 19(4), 367-380. |
 Loacker, P, Pöchträger, S, Fikar, C, Grenzfurtner, W (2024) Process mining-enhanced quality management in food processing industries. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 74 (4), 1326-1346. |
 Cramer, F, Fikar, C (2024) Investigating crowd logistics platform operations for local food distribution. International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 52 (9), 836-855. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJRDM-10-2022-0400 |
 Fikar, C, Braekers, K (2022) Bi-objective optimization of e-grocery deliveries considering food quality losses. Computers & Industrial Engineering 163, 107848. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107848 |
| Paciarotti, C, Mazzuto, G, Torregiani, F, Fikar, C (2022) Locally produced food for restaurants: a theoretical approach for the supply chain network design. International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 50 (13), 164-183. |
 Leithner, M, Fikar, C (2022) A simulation model to investigate impacts of facilitating quality data within organic fresh food supply chains. Annals of Operations Research 314, 529-550. |
 Kump, B, Fikar, C (2021) Challenges of maintaining and diffusing grassroots innovations in alternative food networks: A systems thinking approach. Journal of Cleaner Production 317, 128407. |
 Fikar, C, Leithner, M (2021) A decision support system to facilitate collaborative supply of food cooperatives. Production Planning & Control 32(14), 1179-1190. |
 Fikar, C (2020) Model-driven decision support to facilitate efficient fresh food deliveries. Die Bodenkultur: Journal of Land Management, Food and Environment 71(1), 1-9. |
 Fikar, C, Mild, A, Waitz, M (2021) Facilitating consumer preferences and product shelf life data in the design of e-grocery deliveries. European Journal of Operational Research, 294(3), 976-986. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.09.039 |
 Estrada-Moreno, A, Fikar, C, Juan, A, Hirsch, P (2019) A Biased-Randomized Algorithm for Redistribution of Perishable Food Inventories in Supermarket Chains. International Transactions in Operational Research 26(6), 2077- 2095. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.12668 |
| Fikar, C (2018) A decision support system to investigate food losses in e-grocery deliveries. Computers & Industrial Engineering 117, 282-290. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2018.02.014 |
 Fikar, C, Hirsch, P, Gronalt, M (2018) A decision support system to investigate dynamic last-mile distribution facilitating cargo-bikes. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications 21(3), 300-317. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2017.1395830 |
Home Health Care
 Fikar, C, Hirsch, P (2017) Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling: A Review. Computers & Operations Research 77, 86-95. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2016.07.019 |
 Fikar, C, Hirsch, P (2018) Evaluation of trip and car sharing concepts for home health care services. Flexible Services and Manufacturing 30(1-2), 78-97. [Download Publication] |
 Fikar, C, Juan, AA, Martinez, E, Hirsch, P (2016) A discrete-event driven metaheuristic for dynamic home service routing with synchronised trip sharing. European Journal of Industrial Engineering 10(3), 323-340. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ejie.2016.076382 |
| Fikar, C, Hirsch, P (2015) A matheuristic for routing real-world home service transport systems facilitating walking, Journal of Cleaner Production 105, 300-310. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.07.013 |
Disaster Relief
| Hakimifar, M, Balcik, B, Fikar, C, Hemmelmayr, V, Wakolbinger, T (2022). Evaluation of field visit planning heuristics during rapid needs assessment in an uncertain post-disaster environment. Annals of Operations Research 319, 517-558. |
 Harpring, R, Maghsoudi, A, Fikar, C, Piotrowicz, WD, Heaslip, G (2021) An analysis of compounding factors of epidemics in complex emergencies: a system dynamics approach. Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management 11 (2), 198-226. [Open Access: Link] |
 Fikar, C, Hirsch, P, Nolz P (2018) Agent-based simulation optimization for dynamic disaster relief distribution. Central European Journal of Operations Research 26(2), 423-442. [Access: Springer SharedIt] |
 Berariu, R, Fikar, C, Gronalt, M, Hirsch, P (2016) Training decision-makers in flood response with system dynamics. Disaster Prevention and Management 25(2), 118-136. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-06-2015-0140 |
| Berariu, R, Fikar, C, Gronalt, M, Hirsch, P (2016) Resource deployment under consideration of conflicting needs in times of river floods. Disaster Prevention and Management 25(5), 649-663. DOI 25(5), 649-663. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-04-2016-0081 |
 Fikar, C, Gronalt, M, Hirsch, P (2016) A decision support system for coordinated disaster relief distribution. Expert Systems with Applications 57, 104-116. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.03.039 |
 Berariu, R, Fikar, C, Gronalt, M, Hirsch, P (2015) Understanding the impact of cascade effects of natural disasters on disaster relief operations. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 12, 350–356. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.03.005 |
Horizontal Cooperation In Logistics
 Serrano, A, Patrick, H, Faulin, J, Fikar C (2018) Agent-Based Simulation for Horizontal Cooperation in Logistics and Transportation: from the Individual to the Grand Coalition. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 85, 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2018.04.002 |
 Gruler, A, Fikar, C, Juan, A, Hirsch, P, Contreras Bolton, C (2017) Supporting multi-depot and stochastic waste collection management in clustered urban areas via simulation-optimization. Journal of Simulation 11(1), 11-19. [Access: Springer SharedIt] |
 Serrano-Hernandez, A, Hirsch, P, Faulin, J, Fikar, C (2018) The role of horizontal cooperation to improve service quality in last-mile distribution, International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling 13 (4), 299–309. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSPM.2018.093753 |
Miscellaneous
 Cramer, F, Fikar, C (2025) . Modeling sustainable crowd logistics delivery networks: A scoping systems thinking review. Sustainability Analytics and Modeling, in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.samod.2025.100039 |
| Vögl, J, Fikar, C, Hirsch, P, Gronalt, M (2019) A simulation study to evaluate economic and environmental effects of different unloading infrastructure in an urban retail street. Computers & Industrial Engineering 137, 106032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.106032 |
 Protic, S, Fikar, C, Voegl, J, Gronalt, M (2019) Analysing the impact of value added services at intermodal inland terminals. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, in press. https://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2019.1657386 |
 Serrano-Hernandez, A, Pintor, JM, Faulin J, Fikar, C, Alegria, I, Astiz P (2018) Practice Summaries: Deriving the Optimal Location of a Biorefinery in Northern Spain. Interfaces 48(6), 596-600. https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2018.0953 |
 Fikar, C, Hirsch, P, Posset, M, Gronalt M (2016) Impact of transalpine rail network disruptions: A study of the Brenner Pass. Journal of Transport Geography 54, 122-131. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.05.018 |
Decision Support for Time-Critical Logistics Operations 
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