Intermodal rail/road freight transport constitutes an alternative to long-haul road transport for the distribution of large volumes of goods. The paper introduces the intermodal transportation problem for the tactical planning of mode and service selection. In rail mode, shippers either book...

A manufacturing company's production-related decision-making is to a large extent characterized by machine scheduling and support device operations management. All these industrial equipment types consume energy, often in the form of electricity. This electricity is more and more provided by...

This paper takes up a recently published model for collaborative vehicle routing, where shared customers expect shipments from more than one carrier. It is the purpose of the model to decide whether the demands of such a customer are served through individual visits of the involved carriers or...

Handling increasing volumes of parcel shipments in urban areas is one of the major challenges in city logistics. As the currently used conventional delivery by diesel vans is increasingly regarded critically by the public, alternative delivery concepts with cargo bikes, drones and robots have...