Increasing urbanization has turned transporting freight from, to, and within urban areas into
a major challenge. Freight transportation represents a lifeline for urban retail and industry …

In the last few years, competitiveness, problems of globalization and concerns about
sustainability require new approaches and models for the planning of transport networks …

Horizontal collaboration has been considered as effective practice for sustainable logistics
and freight transport and it has gained increased attention in recent years. This paper aims …

Transportation planning has been established as a key topic in the literature and social
production practices. An increasing number of researchers are studying vehicle routing …

This study focuses on the collaborative multicenter vehicle routing problem with time
windows and mixed deliveries and pickups (CMVRPTWMDP), which is a variant of the …

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 …

With the growing interest in win–win cooperation within the logistics industry recently,
collaborative multicenter logistics networks have witnessed the establishment of numerous …

With increasing market competition and environmental awareness, the freight transport
industry has become under ever-increasing pressure to achieve better sustainability …

The transition to modern and ecologically oriented industries requires the application of new
approaches and advanced models of logistics management. In this context, horizontal …

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 …