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Georgios Ninikas and Ioannis Minis
In the dynamic vehicle routing problem with mixed backhauls (DVRPMB) both pick up orders and delivery orders, not related to each other, are served. The requests of the former arrive dynamically while the latter are known a priori. In this study, we focu...
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Sungwon Moon, Seolwon Koo, Yujin Lim and Hyunjin Joo
With recent technological advancements, the commercialization of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is expected to be realized soon. However, it is anticipated that a mixed traffic of AVs and human-driven vehicles (HVs) will persist for a considerable period unti...
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Timeliness of steel distribution centers can effectively ensure the smooth progress of ship construction, but the carbon emissions of vehicles in the distribution process are also a major source of pollution. Therefore, when considering the common cost o...
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Feng Cheng, Shuchun Jia and Wei Gao
In order to tackle the issue of carbon emissions in logistics and distribution, a vehicle routing model was proposed with the aim of minimizing the overall cost, which includes the vehicle?s fixed cost, transportation costs, and carbon emission costs. An...
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Kai Gutenschwager, Markus Rabe and Jorge Chicaiza-Vaca
Fast growing e-commerce has a significant impact both on CEP providers and public entities. While service providers have the first priority on factors such as costs and reliable service, both are increasingly focused on environmental effects, in the inte...
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Daqing Wu, Jiyu Li, Jiye Cui and Dong Hu
With continuous improvements in people?s consumption levels, consumers? demands for safe and fresh agricultural products increase. The increase in the number of vehicles and serious congestion on roads has led to problems, such as the weak timeliness of ...
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Daqing Wu, Rong Yan, Hongtao Jin and Fengmao Cai
In the operational, strategic and tactical decision-making problems of the agri-food supply chain, the perishable nature of the commodities can represent a particular complexity problem. It is, therefore, appropriate to consider decision support tools th...
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Antonino Vitetta
Given two pick-up and delivery points, the best path chosen does not necessarily follow the criteria of minimum travel time or generalized minimum cost evaluated with a deterministic approach. Given a criterion, the perceived cost is not deterministic fo...
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Amirreza Nickkar and Young-Jae Lee
In many states in the United States, school bus fleets are assigned to serve students sequentially at three levels?high school, middle school, and elementary school; however, in past studies, each of these stages in the problem was considered separately....
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Domagoj Jakobovic, Marko Ðurasevic, Karla Brkic, Juraj Fosin, Tonci Caric and Davor Davidovic
Many real-world applications of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) are arising today, which range from physical resource planning to virtual resource management in the cloud computing domain. A common trait of these applications is usually the large scale...
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Yusef Ahsini, Pablo Díaz-Masa, Belén Inglés, Ana Rubio, Alba Martínez, Aina Magraner and J. Alberto Conejero
With the increasing demand for online shopping and home delivery services, optimizing the routing of electric delivery vehicles in urban areas is crucial to reduce environmental pollution and improve operational efficiency. To address this opportunity, w...
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Yousra Bouleft and Ahmed Elhilali Alaoui
The rapid increase in urbanization results in an increase in the volume of municipal solid waste produced every day, causing overflow of the garbage cans and thus distorting the city?s appearance; for this and environmental reasons, smart cities involve ...
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Cátia Oliveira, Joana Pereira, Eva Santos, Tânia M. Lima and Pedro D. Gaspar
At this time the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines has been proven, and it is crucial to carry out the complete vaccination of the population. Therefore, it is imperative to optimize the vaccine distribution fleets. This paper discusses the optimiza...
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Inês A. Ferreira, Catarina Bento, Luís Mascarenhas, Carina Pimentel and Helena Carvalho
The number of variants of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) has grown rapidly in the last decades. Among these, VRPs with time window constraints are among the most studied ones. However, the literature regarding VRPs that concerns the delivery and insta...
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Angie Ramirez-Villamil, Jairo R. Montoya-Torres and Anicia Jaegler
Studies that use rivers in a last-mile delivery context are scarce. This research considers the first multimodal alternative based on a barge for parcel delivery activities. It proposes two sustainable network designs for a two-echelon distribution. The ...
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Keyju Lee and Junjae Chae
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) attempts to find optimal (minimum length) routes for a set of vehicles visiting a set of locations. Solving a VRP calls for a cost matrix between locations. The size of the matrix grows quadratically with an increasing n...
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Xuyu Feng, Jianhua Yu, Zihan Kan, Lin Zhou, Luliang Tang and Xue Yang
With the advent of the information age and rapid population growth, the urban transportation environment is deteriorating. Travel-route planning is a key issue in modern sustainable transportation systems. When conducting route planning, identifying the ...
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Hongyu Zheng, Juan Gao, Juxia Xiong, Guanglei Yao, Hongjiang Cui and Lirong Zhang
Aiming at the scheduling problem of logistics distribution vehicles, an enhanced artificial electric field algorithm (SC-AEFA) based on the sine cosine mechanism is proposed. The development of the SC-AEFA was as follows. First, a map grid model for ente...
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Ali H. Wheeb, Rosdiadee Nordin, Asma? Abu Samah, Mohammed H. Alsharif and Muhammad Asghar Khan
Telecommunications among unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged recently due to rapid improvements in wireless technology, low-cost equipment, advancement in networking communication techniques, and demand from various industries that seek to lever...
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Sana Sahar Guia, Abdelkader Laouid, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Ahcène Bounceur, Mai Alfawair and Amna Eleyan
Complex systems are often designed in a decentralized and open way so that they can operate on heterogeneous entities that communicate with each other. Numerous studies consider the process of components simulation in a complex system as a proven approac...
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