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Austin Saragih

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

7

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Scholarly Papers (7)

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SCGraph: A Dependency-Free Python Package for Road, Rail, and Maritime Shortest Path Routing Generation and Distance Estimation

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2025/028
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Aug 2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Kühne Logistics University and Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) - MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program
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Software, Logistics, Network Generation, Shortest Path, Distance Estimation

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Spin the Bottle Bill: Deposit-Refund System Policy and Reverse Supply Chain Design

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2024/010
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Sep 2024 Last Revised: 30 May 2025
Austin Saragih, Lara Pontes, Saurabh Amin and Jan C. Fransoo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management
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Recycling, Deposit Refund System, Continuous Approximation, Monotonicity Analysis, Facility Location

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The Value of Information in Supply Chain Network Design: A Three-Stage Stochastic Programming Approach

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2024/012
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2026
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics and University of Bristol Business School
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BMSSPy: A Python Package and Empirical Comparison of Bounded Multi-Source Shortest Path Algorithm

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2025/034
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Nov 2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics and Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM
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Software, Algorithms, Shortest Path, Logistics, Distance Estimation

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Regress, Reverse, Recycle: Contextual Stochastic Optimization in Waste Policy and Logistics Network Design

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2025/005
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Apr 2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management
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waste policy, recycling, contextual stochastic optimization, reverse logistics network design

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Revitalizing Municipal Solid Waste Recycling: Review of Current U.S. Policies and Potential Directions for the Circular Economy

MIT Science Policy Review 5, 50-57 (2024). [10.38105/spr.5rbiekp17o]
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 07 Oct 2025
Austin Saragih, Milena Janjevic and Matthias Winkenbach
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics
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Recycling, Municipal Solid Waste, Circular Economy, Sustainability, Waste Management

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Value vs. Cost Function Approximation: Environmental Impact and Profit Comparison in Production Planning Under Uncertainty

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 May 2026 Last Revised: 19 May 2026
Thorsten Greil, Austin Saragih and Martin Grunow
Technical University Munich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics and Technische Universität München (TUM)
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Production Planning, Sustainability, Uncertainty, Sequential Decision Analytics, Cost Function Approximation, Value Function Approximation