In Canada transport companies must ensure that truck drivers can comply with Canadian Commercial Vehicle Drivers Hours of Service Regulations. Canadian regulations comprise the provisions found in U.S. hours of service regulations as well as additional constraints on the maximum amount of...

This paper presents and studies the Canadian Truck Driver Scheduling Problem (CAN-TDSP) which is the problem of determining whether a sequence of locations can be visited within given time windows in such a way that driving and working activities of truck drivers comply with Canadian Commercial...

The U.S. Truck Driver Scheduling Problem (US-TDSP) is the problem of visiting a sequence of n locations within given time windows in such a way that driving and working activities of truck drivers comply with U.S. hours of service regulations. In the case of single time windows it is known that...

Alternative machines assignment, machine sharing, and inter-cell movements are very common yet difficult to be solved integratedly in modern dynamic Cellular Manufacturing Systems (CMS). In this paper, we incorporate these issues and consider a dynamic cellular scheduling problem with flexible...

The extant literature on the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands indicates that restocking yields moderate percentage expected cost reductions relative to the a priori approach, but lacks theoretical support for this improvement. We conduct a worst-case analysis that corroborates the...

PurposeThis study aims to explore the challenges of truck-sharing and effective ways of dealing with those in achieving supply chain collaboration and collaboration in transportation management (e.g. transport collaboration) for transport capacity expansion, and reducing carbon emission and...

We study how delivery data can be applied to improve the on-time performance of last mile delivery services. Motivated by the delivery operations and data of a food delivery service provider, we discuss a framework that integrates the travel time predictors with the order assignment...

In September 2008 new regulations for managing heavy vehicle driver fatigue entered into force in Australia. According to the new regulations there is a chain of responsibility ranging from drivers to dispatchers and shippers and thus, carriers must explicitly consider driving and working hour...

This paper presents an improved version of the solution method that won the inventory routing problemtrack of the 12th DIMACS Implementation Challenge. The solution method is a branch-and-cut embeddedmatheuristic where a matheuristic is called every time new primal solution is found in a...

Travelers expect integrated and multimodal itinerary planning while addressing their individual expectations. Besides common preferences such as travel time and price, further criteria such as walking and waiting times are of importance as well. The competing features of these preferences yield...