Dynamic container drayage booking and routing decision support approach for E-commerce platforms

R Chen, S Jia, Q Meng - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
E-commerce drayage platforms are relatively new to the container drayage industry. Their
revenue management poses an enormous logistical challenge owing to the unpredictable …

Dynamic tugboat deployment and scheduling with stochastic and time-varying service demands

X Wei, S Jia, Q Meng, J Koh - Transportation Research Part B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Container ports serve as crucial logistics hubs in global supply chains, but navigating ships
within such ports is complex due to restricted waterways. Tugboats play a critical role in …

Digital system for dynamic container loading with neural network-based memory exploiting hybrid genetic algorithm for carbon reduction

CF Chien, YB Lan, K Sethanan, CC Peng - Computers & Industrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Global logistics are increasingly important owing to shifting paradigm by strategically
focusing on core competences, outsourcing manufacturing to pursue higher value …

Dynamic collaborative truck-drone delivery with en-route synchronization and random requests

H Cui, K Li, S Jia, Q Meng - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Coordinated truck and drone delivery is gaining popularity in logistics as it can greatly
reduce operation costs. However, existing studies on related operations management …

Bi-objective dynamic tugboat scheduling with speed optimization under stochastic and time-varying service demands

X Wei, HC Lau, Z Xiao, X Fu, X Zhang, Z Qin - Transportation Research Part …, 2025 - Elsevier
With the growing emphasis on green shipping to reduce the environmental impact of
maritime transportation, optimizing fuel consumption with maintaining high service quality …

[HTML][HTML] Forwarding containers to dry ports in congested logistic networks

A Sciomachen, G Stecca - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work investigates the impact of container arrival flow rate on the port surrounding
network and proposes a mixed integer programming model to optimize their forwarding …

Drop-and-pull container drayage with flexible assignment of work break for vehicle drivers

D Wang, R Zhang, B Qiu, W Chen, X Xie - Computers & Operations …, 2024 - Elsevier
Consideration of driver-related constraints, such as mandatory work break, in vehicle
scheduling and routing is of extraordinary importance for safety driving and guaranteeing …

An improved time-window-partition based algorithm for the container drayage problem in separation mode with tractor-trailer

H Zhang, W Li, P Si, Y Fu, Y Wang - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Although the container drayage problem (CDP) involves a relatively short transportation
distance, its cost proportion is significant, making its optimization economically and …

The dynamic stochastic container drayage problem with truck appointment scheduling

K Stoop, M Pickavet, D Colle, P Audenaert - OR Spectrum, 2024 - Springer
In this work, a stochastic dynamic version of the container drayage problem is studied. The
presented model incorporates uncertainty in the form of stochastic loading and unloading …

Modeling and Optimization of Container Drayage Problem with Empty Container Constraints across Multiple Inland Depots

X Yu, Y Feng, C He, C Liu - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Container drayage involves the transportation of containers by trucks. Although the distance
is relatively short compared to maritime and rail transport, container drayage accounts for …