This paper concerns operational planning of door-to-door transportation systems for the
elderly and/or disabled, who often need a more flexible transportation system than the rest of …

Road freight transport is one of the sectors with the highest greenhouse gas emissions and
fuel consumption in the logistics industry. In recent years, due to the increase in carbon …

In this paper, we develop an insertion heuristic for scheduling Mobility Allowance Shuttle
Transit (MAST) services, an innovative concept that merges the flexibility of Demand …

One important requirement of modern supply chain management is the frequent exchange
of containers via multiple cross-docks which requires spatial and time synchronisations …

Autonomous vehicles are expected to play an important role in handling the last mile
logistics in intelligent transportation systems thanks to their unmanned nature and full …

Whereas automated guided vehicles (AGVs) have traditionally been used for material
handling, the utilisation of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) is growing quickly owing to …

In order to improve profitability, freight forwarding companies try to organize their operational
transportation planning systematically, considering not only their own fleet but also external …

This paper presents a mixed-integer programming model for a variant of the pickup and
delivery problem with time windows. The fleet is assumed to be heterogeneous with a novel …

This paper introduces a variant of the vehicle routing problem where a group of retail stores
are served from a distribution center using a fleet of vehicles. Moreover, products are …

Online shopping has become ever more indispensable to many people with busy schedules
who have a growing need for services ranging for a wide variety of goods, which include …