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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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