Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) have been the subject of intense and fast-growing
research for the last six decades. These problems have received much attention in …

Trends in retail and e-commerce have led to greater demand for urban freight and last-mile
deliveries. This is a concern for urban planners, parcel carriers, and citizens as they struggle …

The rising competition in the logistics sector forces companies to be more economically
efficient. One of the major sources of inefficiency is the incomplete usage of available …

The activities of the most enterprises are related to the difficulties while adapting to the
current market demand, therefore, it is vitally important to define and solve the arising …

Optimization of collaborative multi-depot pickup and delivery logistics networks (CMDPDLN)
with split loads and time windows involves a customer demand splitting strategy and a multi …

Purpose As an application of self-service technology, automated parcel station (APS) is
emerging as a logistics innovation to address the inefficiency and delivery failure in …

After more than 10 years from the first edition of this book, the need for multi-objective
optimization models in freight logistics is still growing. Companies engineer always more …

Transportation is one of the essential services in cities that contribute to the quality of life. As
a result, efficient methods for transport planning have become increasingly important …

Reliance on the sharing economy is becoming crucial to the functioning of modern cities.
Certain sharing economy-based solutions can contribute to the development of sustainable …

The logistics industry is known to suffer from inefficiencies. Recently published numbers on
the percentage of trucks running idle or almost idle on European road networks are …