Last mile logistics: Research trends and needs

E Demir, A Syntetos… - IMA Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Aspiring green agendas in conjunction with tremendous economic pressures are resulting in
an increased attention to the environment and technological innovations for improving …

Integrating operations research into green logistics: A review

Y Wu, S Wang, L Zhen, G Laporte - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2023 - Springer
Logistical activities have a significant global environmental impact, necessitating the
adoption of green logistics practices to mitigate environmental effects. The COVID-19 …

The mixed fleet vehicle routing problem with partial recharging by multiple chargers: Mathematical model and adaptive large neighborhood search

S Dönmez, Ç Koç, F Altıparmak - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract We introduce the Mixed Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and
Partial Recharging by Multiple Chargers (MF-VRP-MC). It composes of electric and internal …

Tourist trip design with heterogeneous preferences, transport mode selection and environmental considerations

J Ruiz-Meza, JR Montoya-Torres - Annals of Operations Research, 2021 - Springer
Tourism is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world with a shift from mass tourism to
personalized travel. Nevertheless, it generates significant environmental impacts. The …

A bi-objective time-dependent vehicle routing problem with delivery failure probabilities

F Menares, E Montero, G Paredes-Belmar… - Computers & Industrial …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work presents a bi-objective time-dependent vehicle routing problem with delivery
failure probabilities (TDVRPDFP). Two objectives are jointly minimized: operational costs …

A review of heuristics and hybrid methods for green vehicle routing problems considering emissions

A Fernández Gil, E Lalla-Ruiz… - Journal of Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The evolution of the Vehicle Routing Problem—A survey of VRP research and practice from 2005 to 2022

B Golden, X Wang, E Wasil - The Evolution of the Vehicle Routing …, 2023 - Springer
We identify 135 articles published in scholarly, academic journals from January 2005 to
June 2022 that survey various aspects of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) ranging from …

Enhancing travel time prediction with deep learning on chronological and retrospective time order information of big traffic data

CYT Chen, EW Sun, MF Chang, YB Lin - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
With growing environmental concerns and the exploitation of ubiquitous big data, smart
transportation is transforming logistics business and operations into a more sustainable …

An improved transformer model with multi-head attention and attention to attention for low-carbon multi-depot vehicle routing problem

Y Zou, H Wu, Y Yin, L Dhamotharan, D Chen… - Annals of Operations …, 2024 - Springer
Low-carbon logistics is an emerging and sustainable development industry in the era of a
low-carbon economy. The end-to-end deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method with an …

Understanding freight drivers' behavior and the impact on vehicles' fuel consumption and CO2e emissions

Z Zhang, E Demir, R Mason… - Operational Research, 2023 - Springer
Despite the significant impact of driver behavior on fuel consumption and carbon dioxide
equivalent (CO2e) emissions, this phenomenon is often overlooked in road freight …