A data-driven time-dependent routing and scheduling for activity-based freight transport modeling

Truck flow patterns can best be understood through the study of freight activities on a transportation network. These activities are often observable after the execution of tours resulting from a routing and scheduling optimization process where the traditional Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is used to minimize multiple objectives...

Intelligent Access Policy ensuring the right vehicle on the right road at the right time

The evolution of the past decades has shown a constant growth of transport demand and mobility. Nowadays, logistic sector contributes considerably to global CO2 emissions, around 90% of which come from freight transport. A feasible approach that may facilitate the deployment of new generation of green and sustainable road freight vehicles,...

Flexibility in Home Delivery by Enabling Time Window Changes

To enhance the perceived quality of home delivery services more and more flexibility is offered to the receivers. Enabling same-day delivery, communicating predefined narrow time windows, choosing the time windows and alternative address delivery add to the receiver’s experience, making the delivery company an interesting partner for parcel...

Activity-Based Freight Transport Modeling: A Surrogate-Based Optimization Model to Estimate Freight Vehicles Time-Dependent Routing and Scheduling

The spatial and temporal catachrestic of freight road transport is important to study daily patterns of freight activities. This requires a model that can reproduce these spatial-temporal patterns. This paper proposes a surrogate-based optimization method to calibrate a data-driven time-dependent vehicle routing and scheduling model that can be...

Dynamic Assignment Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

Immediate Parcel to Vehicle Assignment in Cross Docking in City Logistics: A Dynamic Assignment Vehicle Routing Problem

In this paper we present the Dynamic Assignment Vehicle Routing Problem. This problem arises in parcel to vehicle assignment where the destination of the parcels is not known up to the assignment of the parcel to a delivering vehicle. The assignment has to be done immediately without the possibility of re-assignment afterwards. The problem is...

Improvement of Network Performance by In-Vehicle Routing Using Floating Car Data

This paper describes a study which gives insight into the size of improvement that is possible with individual in-car routing advice based on the actual traffic situation derived from floating car data (FCD). It also gives an idea about the required penetration rate of floating car data needed to achieve a certain degree of improvement. The...