The rapid advancement of e-commerce has driven unprecedented expansion in urban logistics networks, where their sustainability is constrained by multifaceted factors including strict time-bound service requirements, employee’s satisfaction, traffic congestion, and carbon emission regulations. Among these critical elements, employee’s satisfaction …
As e-commerce continues to evolve, the issue of first delivery failures due to customers not being at home has become increasingly prominent, significantly increasing the operational costs of logistics companies. This paper considers an incentive-driven (ID) strategy, whereby logistics companies …
Demand-responsive transit (DRT) is a flexible public transportation mode offering affordable door-to-door services. However, its widespread adoption still faces large hurdles such as demand variability, immediacy, and financial sustainability. Most DRT studies focus on fleet management, often leading to underutilization …
The transportation of hazardous material involves the movement of freight representing a high risk to health, safety, and the environment. Due to its nature, hazardous material transportation is regulated by strict laws and must be treated separately from classical transportation. …
Time-varying traffic conditions are crucial features of urban logistics. Overlooking these conditions will pose a high coordination risk for drone-assisted routing problems. In this paper, a time-dependent multiple truck–drone routing problem (TD-MTDRP), which captures the time-varying traffic conditions as time-dependent …
In many industries, data changed the way decisions are made, driving performance and competitiveness. Transportation and logistics are no exception. Companies are analyzing data from their vehicles to improve driving behavior, optimize transportation routes, and improve their operations. Over the …
In a survey of Belgian logistics service providers, the efficiency of first-mile pickup operations was identified as a key area for improvement, given the increasing number of returns in e-commerce, which has a significant impact on traffic congestion, carbon emissions, …
Daily traffic congestion poses significant challenges for companies operating in urban areas. By considering predicted travel times throughout the day, route planning systems can improve delivery schedules, thereby reducing costs associated with delays and congestion. Although the time-dependent vehicle routing …
Semi-structured decisions, which fall between highly structured and unstructured decision types, rely on human intuition and experience for the final choice, while using data and analytical models to generate tentative solutions. These processes are traditionally iterative and time-consuming, requiring cycles …
We develop theoretical foundations and practical algorithms for vehicle routing with time-dependent travel times. We also provide new benchmark instances and experimental results. First, we study basic operations on piecewise linear arrival time functions. In particular, we devise a faster …