Research
My research is in line with the UoL's Net-zero and Digital economy themes. I have been conducting the following funded research projects:
• "UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub (UK-MarRe Hub)" (2023-2027; £340,369, EPSRC, EP/Y024605/1. Total budget £7.4m).
• "Combined passenger and goods transportation in suburb traffic (ERGODIC)", (2023-2026; £278,104, ESRC, ES/Y010574/1. Total budget €1.14m).
• "Data-enabled decarbonisation at seaports", (2/2024-12/2024, £23,158, funded by combined EPSRC and ESRC Impact Acceleration Account).
• "Digitalisation for operational efficiency and GHG emission reduction at container ports" (2022-2023; £42,605, EPSRC, EP/W028492/1.).
• "Modelling and Optimization for Flexible Berth Allocation Systems at Container Ports under Uncertainty" (2018-2022; £11,100, Royal Society, IEC\NSFC\170100).
• "Emission Control and Sustainable Energy in Green Port Development" (2017-2018; £21,600, British Council, 2016-RLWK7-10122).
• "Offshore Operation & Maintenance Mutualization (2OM)” (2011-2015; €224,772, EU Interreg, Interreg-IVA-2012-4174. Total budget €1.88m).
• "Establishing new collaborations with academic and industrial communities for container fleet management" (2007-2008; £24,704, EPSRC, EP/F012918/1).
• "Integrated container fleet management in transportation service systems" (2006-2010; £209,310, EPSRC, EP/E000398/1).
My research work has led to over 80 refereed articles in journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; Automatica; Transportation Research Part B/E/D; European Journal of Operational Research; Naval Research Logistics. Moreover, I have published five monographs:
• Song, D.P. and Dong, J.X. (2022). Modelling Empty Container Repositioning Logistics, Springer, London, 166p. ISBN: 978-3-030-93382-1.
• Song, D.P. (2021). Container Logistics and Maritime Transport. Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group), London. 414p. ISBN: 9780367336509.
• Li, B. and Song, D.P. (2021). Dual-Channel Supply Chain Decisions with Risk-Averse Behaviour, World Scientific Publishing, London. 240p. ISBN: 9781800610392.
• Roe, M., Xu, W., Song, D.P. (2015). “Optimising Supply Chain Performance: Information Sharing and Coordinated Management”, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK, 240p, ISBN: 9781137501134.
• Song, D.P. (2013), “Optimal Control and Optimization of Stochastic Supply Chain Systems”, Springer: London, 292p, ISBN 978-1-4471-4723-7.
Transport and logistics
Maritime transport and logistics; Container shipping supply chain; Empty container/vehicle repositioning; Port operations management; Rail terminal management; Emission analysis and reduction.
Operations and supply chain management
Supply chain management; Manufacturing system optimisation (MTS/MTO/ETO); Production planning and inventory control; Scheduling; Disruption management; Risk-averse behavior; Competition and cooperation.
Mathematical modelling, simulation and data analytics
Mathematical programming; Stochastic dynamic programming; Data mining; Machine learning; Artificial Intelligence; Game theory; Meta-heuristic optimisation; Simulation (event-driven and multi-agent); Perturbation analysis.
Research groups
Research grants
Green Shipping Corridor Belfast - Liverpool
INNOVATE UK (UK)
January 2024 - March 2024
UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2023 - March 2027
CombinEd passengeR and GOoDs transportation in suburb traffIC (ERGODIC)
UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
November 2023 - October 2026
Digitalisation and innovation for operational efficiency and GHG emission reduction at container ports
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2022 - January 2023
Modelling and Optimization for Flexible Berth Allocation Systems at Container Ports under Uncertainty
ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)
March 2018 - March 2022
Emission control and sustainable energy in green port development
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY (BEIS) (UK)
April 2017 - January 2018
ENRICH: EC-ChiNa Research Network on Integrated Container Supply CHains
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
October 2013 - September 2017