From airplanes to electric vehicles and trains, modern transportation systems require large quantities of energy. These vast amounts of energy have to be produced somewhere …
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 …
In the context of city logistics, freight transportation is one of the prominent causes of traffic congestion, high levels of pollution, and safety concerns. To decrease the negative impact of …
Background: Uncertainty conditions have been increasingly considered in optimization problems arising in real-life transportation and logistics activities. Generally, the analysis of …
The capacitated location routing problem (CLRP) integrates a facility location problem with a multi-depot vehicle routing problem. We consider the CLRP with stochastic demands, whose …
Since its appearance in the 1990s, horizontal collaboration (HC) practices have revealed themselves as catalyzers for optimizing the distribution of goods in freight transport logistics …
Inefficient road transportation causes unnecessary costs and emissions. This problem is even more severe in fresh food transportation, where temperature control is used to …
M Gansterer, RF Hartl, S Wieser - Annals of Operations Research, 2021 - Springer
Competitive markets, increased fuel costs, and underutilized vehicle fleets are characteristics that currently define the logistics sector. Given an increasing pressure to act …
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) has been widely studied for the classical closed-loop variant. However, very little attention has been paid to the open-loop variant. Most of the …