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)....

The paper investigates the Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with a non-linear concave and strictly monotonic increasing charging function. In the literature, the non-linear charging function is typically approximated by a piecewise linear charging function which does not overestimate the real...

The last mile delivery is particularly challenging for stochastic deliveries with narrow time windows. This topic is timely due to the rise of e-commerce and courier type services and the impacts of fleet size and vehicle type on delivery costs. A novel contribution of this research is to...

Ride-sharing systems strive to provide affordable on-demand mobility in urban areas by effectively consolidating incoming transportation requests. To ensure that transportation offers meet travelers' individual time requirements and constraints, service operators offer multiple pickup times from...

The fast rates at which urban population is growing coupled with increasing demands expressed within cities have given rise to challenging freight transportation problems. The Two-echelon Vehicle Routing Problem (2E-VRP) has been proposed as a scheme to tackle city-related problems. To better...

Online restaurant aggregators, which connect diners with restaurants and organize the delivery of ordered meals, have experienced significant growth in recent years. Meal delivery logistics is quite challenging, primarily due to the difficulty in managing the supply of delivery resources, i.e.,...

One of the critical issues in the operation of vehicle-sharing systems is the optimization of the fleet repositioning movements. Repositioning implies the artificial movement of vehicles from places where they accumulate to others in which they are scarce. This yields a higher vehicle...

In the Multi-Commodity two-echelon Distribution Problem (MC2DP), multiple commodities are distributed in a two-echelon distribution system involving suppliers, distribution centres and customers. Each supplier may provide different commodities and each customer may request several commodities as...

In this work, we extend the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows on a road network by considering two types of vehicles, large and small, to serve customers. Motivated from city logistics applications, large vehicles are forbidden from the downtown area. Accordingly, goods...

We study a multi-product maritime inventory routing problem (MIRP) with sailing time uncertainty. We explicitly consider the replanning that happens after uncertainty is revealed. The objective is to determine the stability of the adjusted plans after the occurrence of an uncertain event and to...