Increasing competition and expectations from customers pressures carriers to further improve efficiency. Forming collaborations is essential for carriers to reach their targeted efficiency levels. In this study, we investigate an auction mechanism to facilitate collaboration amongst carriers...

Due to the uncertain nature of the traffic system, it is not trivial for delivery companies to reliably satisfy customers' time windows. To guarantee the reliability of the pickup and delivery service under stochastic and time-dependent travel times, we consider a pickup and delivery problem...

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...

The travel time to proceed from one location to another in a network is an important consideration in many urban transportation settings ranging from the planning of delivery routes in freight transportation to the determination of shortest itineraries in advanced traveler information systems....