Freight distribution with electric vehicles (EVs) is a promising alternative to reduce the carbon footprint associated with city logistics. Algorithms for planning routes for EVs should take into account their relatively short driving range and the effects of traffic congestion …
Travel times inside cities often vary quite a lot during a day and significantly impact the duration of commercial delivery routes. Several authors have suggested time-dependent variants of the most commonly encountered vehicle routing problems. In these papers, however, time-dependency …
We study a new problem named the Time-dependent Electric Vehicle Routing Problem (TDEVRP) which involves routing a fleet of electric vehicles to serve a set of customers and determining the vehicle’s speed and departure time at each arc of the …
The travel time to proceed from one location to another in a network is an important consideration in many urban transportation settings ranging from the planning of delivery routes in freight transportation to the determination of shortest itineraries in advanced …
This article proposes a method to reduce working time violations of a real-world courier service in the urban logistics with time-dependent traffic information. The challenge is to reduce working time violation without creating significant changes to the urban logistics plan …
© 2020 Elsevier LtdOptimizing the duration of delivery tours is a crucial issue in urban logistics. In most cases, travel times between locations are considered as constant for the whole optimization horizon. Making these travel times time-dependent is particularly relevant …
© 2020 The Authors. Networks published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.Driven by environmental considerations, regulations on vehicle emissions, and the offer of major subsidies, electric commercial vehicles (ECVs) are receiving ever stronger attention in logistics companies. Route planning for ECV fleets …
With energy and environmental issues becoming increasingly prominent, electric vehicles (EVs) have become the important transportation means in the logistics distribution. In the real-world urban road network, there often exist multiple paths between any two locations (depot, customer, and charging …
The time-dependent vehicle routing problems have lately received great attention for logistics companies due to their crucial roles in reducing the time and economic costs, as well as fuel consumption and carbon emissions. However, the dynamic routing environment and traffic …
In this paper, we introduce several new methods for efficiently evaluating moves in neighborhood search heuristics for routing problems with time-dependent travel times. We consider both the case that route duration is constrained and the case that route duration appears …