Collaborative truck-drone routing for contactless parcel delivery during the epidemic

G Wu, N Mao, Q Luo, B Xu, J Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The COVID-19 pandemic calls for contactless deliveries. To prevent the further spread of the
disease and ensure the timely delivery of supplies, this paper investigates a collaborative …

[HTML][HTML] An improved tabu search algorithm for solving heterogeneous fixed fleet open vehicle routing problem with time windows

ZH Ahmed, M Yousefikhoshbakht - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The heterogeneous fixed fleet open vehicle routing problem with time windows is a very
significant type of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) that aims to find the minimum fixed and …

Cold chain logistics path optimization via improved multi-objective ant colony algorithm

B Zhao, H Gui, H Li, J Xue - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to improve the performance and change the current situation of the cost
minimization model widely used in the cold chain logistics distribution process, a multi …

An improved tabu search algorithm for the stochastic vehicle routing problem with soft time windows

G Li, J Li - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In real-world environments, vehicle travel and service time will be affected by unpredictable
factors and present a random state. Because of this situation, this article proposes the …

A tabu search based approach for the heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem with three-dimensional loading constraints

Y Meliani, Y Hani, SL Elhaq, A El Mhamedi - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies a particular integration of the Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing
Problem with three-dimensional loading constraints (3L-HFVRP), which considers …

Hybrid fleet capacitated vehicle routing problem with flexible Monte–Carlo Tree search

C Barletta, W Garn, C Turner… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The rise in EVs popularity, combined with reducing emissions and cutting costs, encouraged
delivery companies to integrate them in their fleets. The fleet heterogeneity brings new …

Optimal operation scheduling of mobile hydrogen charging stations: a mathematical optimization model and heuristic approach

SR Han, BD Song - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Demand for hydrogen vehicles is steadily increasing due to sustainable development and
strengthening of policies to support the hydrogen industry. However, due to the lack of …

Extended maximal covering location and vehicle routing problems in designing smartphone waste collection channels: a case study of Yogyakarta province …

DP Sari, NA Masruroh, AMS Asih - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Most people will store smartphone waste or give it to others; this is due to inadequate waste
collection facilities in all cities/regencies in Indonesia. In Yogyakarta Province, there is no …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing freight delivery routes: The time-distance dilemma

P Álvarez, A Serrano-Hernandez, I Lerga… - … Research Part A: Policy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Traditional approaches to optimizing freight delivery routes are based on minimizing a
distance-based cost function. New approaches also use time as an objective function to …

Multi-parking lot and shelter heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with split pickup under emergencies

L Xu, Z Wang, X Chen, Z Lin - Ieee Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vehicle rescue process for individuals in residential areas in disaster scenarios is a
typical vehicle routing problem (VRP). However, most studies do not consider the factor of …