معرفی
İpek Damla Akpınar is a Researcher in the Industrial Engineering Program at Başkent University, actively contributing to operations research with a focus on shared mobility systems and combinatorial optimization. Her work addresses critical challenges in vehicle routing, rebalancing logistics for bike/car sharing networks, and decision support modeling for sustainable transportation infrastructure.
Her research spans Operations Research, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Vehicle Routing, Shared Mobility Systems, Combinatorial Optimization, and Decision Support Systems. Key contributions include developing mathematical frameworks for heterogeneous fleet management, battery-constrained rebalancing in electric vehicle sharing, and fuzzy decision models for ERP software selection. She employs advanced metaheuristics like Variable Neighborhood Descent to solve complex routing problems with practical constraints.
Analysis of her publication trends shows consistent specialization in optimization for shared mobility since 2019, with accelerating output in 2022-2025. Her recent work demonstrates increasing technical sophistication in handling heterogeneous vehicle fleets, battery management systems, and multi-objective decision scenarios. This trajectory positions her research at the intersection of sustainable urban mobility and advanced operations research methodologies, with clear applications in smart city infrastructure.
