Autonomous trucks are expected to fundamentally transform the freight transportation industry. In particular, Autonomous Transfer Hub Networks (ATHNs), which combine autonomous trucks on middle miles with human-driven trucks on the first and last miles, are seen as the most likely deployment...

In some traffic management situations, a cordon (a set of points at which traffic flows into a given area) is set in a road network to establish a reference for the location of equipment to implement traffic measurements and controls (e.g., traffic volume surveys and congestion charging)....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a three-echelon multimodal transportation problem applied to a humanitarian logistic case study that occurred in Mexico. Design/methodology/approach This study develops a methodology combining a transshipment problem and an adaptation of the...