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A New Project Portfolio Strategic Objective Promoting Model Considering Existing Resource Synergies in the Enterprises (2025)
Journal Article

Monitoring and optimizing the objectives of the Project Portfolio (PP) in an enterprise is a critical step toward to achieve the strategic goals. The implementation of PP objectives heavily relies on resources available in the enterprise and the syne... Read More about A New Project Portfolio Strategic Objective Promoting Model Considering Existing Resource Synergies in the Enterprises.

Using Continuous Construction Performance Measurement as a Strategic Tool for Organisational Competitiveness (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The current organisational over-reliance on the use of metrics and indicators that are based only on tangible assets, and financial capital, for the measurement of construction performance has proven to be inadequate for the highly complex and dynami... Read More about Using Continuous Construction Performance Measurement as a Strategic Tool for Organisational Competitiveness.

Practitioners’ perspectives on health and safety risk management in the Ghanaian oil and gas industry (2024)
Journal Article
An, M., Gyambrah, R., & Stemn, E. (2024). Practitioners’ perspectives on health and safety risk management in the Ghanaian oil and gas industry. Safety Science, 177 (2024)(177), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106579

Risk management has been regarded as one way to improve workplace health and safety conditions. However, very little research has been published on the perspectives of practitioners on safety risk management in general and the Ghanaian oil and gas in... Read More about Practitioners’ perspectives on health and safety risk management in the Ghanaian oil and gas industry.

Design of Track Utilization Plan of High-Speed Railway Passenger Station Based on Offline Sorting (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Track utilization is an important part of the high-speed railway passenger station operating organization. On account of the idea of off-line sorting, taking the design of the high-speed railway passenger station track utilization plan as the researc... Read More about Design of Track Utilization Plan of High-Speed Railway Passenger Station Based on Offline Sorting.

A gauge modification-based railway out-of-gauge freight transportation route decision-making methodology (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Liu, J., An, M., & Wang, J. (2023). A gauge modification-based railway out-of-gauge freight transportation route decision-making methodology. Alexandria engineering journal : AEJ, 68, 181-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2023.01.009

The loading outline of railway out-of-gauge freight (ROF) is beyond the railway gauge due to its larger size. The choice of a safe and economical transportation route according to the characteristics of the freights in the railway network becomes an... Read More about A gauge modification-based railway out-of-gauge freight transportation route decision-making methodology.

The development of a sustainability risk assessment model for construction projects: a case study on the Jordanian construction industry (2022)
Thesis
Al sheikh salem, Y. The development of a sustainability risk assessment model for construction projects: a case study on the Jordanian construction industry. (Thesis). University of Salford

The construction industry has significant environmental effects. Jordan is one of the countries in the world that is dealing with population growth, a shortage of resources, and unrestricted pollution, for this reason, the construction industry plays... Read More about The development of a sustainability risk assessment model for construction projects: a case study on the Jordanian construction industry.

Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT) 2021 : rail transportation system safety and maintenance technologies (2022)
Book

This book reflects the latest research trends, methods, and experimental results in the field of electrical and information technologies for rail transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas. As a vital field of... Read More about Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT) 2021 : rail transportation system safety and maintenance technologies.

Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT) 2021 : rail transportation information processing and operational management technologies (2022)
Book

This book reflects the latest research trends, methods, and experimental results in the field of electrical and information technologies for rail transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas. As a vital field of... Read More about Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT) 2021 : rail transportation information processing and operational management technologies.

Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT) 2021 : novel traction drive technologies of rail transportation (2022)
Book

This book reflects the latest research trends, methods and experimental results in the field of electrical and information technologies for rail transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas. As a vital field of r... Read More about Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT) 2021 : novel traction drive technologies of rail transportation.

Railway out-of-gauge cargo transportation route selection method considering gauge modification (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The size of railway out-of-gauge cargo is large, and the loading outline will exceed the railway gauges. In the actual transportation organization, how to choose a safe and economic transportation route is an important issue in the transportation of... Read More about Railway out-of-gauge cargo transportation route selection method considering gauge modification.

Modelling cascade dynamics of passenger flow congestion in urban rail transit network induced by train delay (2022)
Journal Article
Li, M., Zhou, X., Wang, Y., Jia, L., & An, M. (2022). Modelling cascade dynamics of passenger flow congestion in urban rail transit network induced by train delay. Alexandria engineering journal : AEJ, 61(11), 8797-8807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2022.02.022

A research into congestion propagation mechanism of urban rail transit passenger flow in train delay scenario is of great significance to the formulation of coordinated limitation measures of passenger flow among the operation lines in urban rail tra... Read More about Modelling cascade dynamics of passenger flow congestion in urban rail transit network induced by train delay.

A methodology for strategy-oriented project portfolio selection taking dynamic synergy into considerations (2021)
Journal Article
Bai, L., Bai, J., & An, M. (2021). A methodology for strategy-oriented project portfolio selection taking dynamic synergy into considerations. Alexandria engineering journal : AEJ, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2021.11.056

The selection of an optimal project portfolio from multiple project proposals to implement management strategy is always a challenge task for project managers, especially, in the selection of large-scale and complicated projects. This is particular t... Read More about A methodology for strategy-oriented project portfolio selection taking dynamic synergy into considerations.

A hierarchical Bayesian-based model for hazard analysis of climate effect on failures of railway turnout components (2021)
Journal Article

There has been a considerable increase in derailment investigations, in particular at railway turnouts (RTs), as the majority of derailments lead to lengthy disruptions to the appropriate rail operation and catastrophic consequences, being potentiall... Read More about A hierarchical Bayesian-based model for hazard analysis of climate effect on failures of railway turnout components.

Optimal Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) revamp project management : the execution phase model development (2021)
Thesis
Isibor, C. (in press). Optimal Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) revamp project management : the execution phase model development. (Thesis). University of Salford

In a bid to realise production targets and operational efficiency from ultra-deep offshore areas where the world’s oil and gas reserves are situated, the Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) asset is deployed in many parts the world, being t... Read More about Optimal Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) revamp project management : the execution phase model development.

Project portfolio resource risk assessment considering project interdependency by the fuzzy Bayesian network (2020)
Journal Article
Bai, L., Zhang, K., Shi, H., An, M., & Han, X. (2020). Project portfolio resource risk assessment considering project interdependency by the fuzzy Bayesian network. Complexity, 2020, 5410978. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5410978

Resource risk caused by specific resource sharing or competition among projects due to resource constraints is a major issue in project portfolio management, which challenges the application of risk analysis methods effectively. This paper presents a... Read More about Project portfolio resource risk assessment considering project interdependency by the fuzzy Bayesian network.