In developing countries, 40 percent of fresh fruits and vegetables are generally transported through nonrefrigerated vehicles and perishes before use, and wholesalers lose potential profits due to item rot. Here, a wholesaler’s conveyance with fresh goods starts from a depot …
In recent years, reducing emissions has been important for mitigating global warming and the effects of traffic congestion. As a variant of the green vehicle routing problem (GVRP), the time-dependent GVRP with time windows (TDGVRPTW) accounts for both time-dependent travel …
Motivated by rising concerns regarding global warming and traffic congestion effects, we study the time-dependent green vehicle routing problem with time windows (TDGVRPTW), aiming to minimize carbon emissions. The TDGVRPTW is a variant of the time-dependent vehicle routing problem (TDVRP) …
This paper considers an extension of classical distribution problems and introduces the time-dependent fleet size and mix multi-depot vehicle routing problem. This important class of problems finds applications in urban logistics and service design. The solution to this problem impacts …
© 2022 The Author(s)We study an operational planning problem arising in the offshore oil and gas industry, in which we determine routes, as well as sailing speeds along these routes, for a set of platform supply vessels (PSVs) servicing a …
In this paper we study the problem of scheduling a given sequence of activities where each activity consumes a resource with limited availability. Activity durations as well as resource consumptions are assumed to be time-dependent. Because of the interaction of …
In time dependent models, the objective is to find the optimal times (continuous) at which activities occur and resources are utilized. These models arise whenever a schedule of activities needs to be constructed. A common approach consists of discretizing the …
This paper is motivated by a non-emergency ambulance transportation service provider that picks up and drops off patients while considering both the time window for medical appointments and the maximum ride-time constraint for each patient. Varying travel times based on …
Aiming at the time-dependent green vehicle routing problem with fuzzy demand, this paper comprehensively considers the dispatch costs, time window penalty costs, fuel costs, and the effects of vehicle travel speed, road gradient, and vehicle load on fuel consumption, a …
Motivated by some practical applications of post-disaster supply delivery, we study a multi-trip time-dependent vehicle routing problem with split delivery (MTTDVRP-SD) with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This is a variant of the VRP that allows the UAV to travel …