Anderluh, Alexandra, Hemmelmayr, Vera, Nolz, Pamela. 2017. Synchronizing vans and cargo bikes in a city distribution network. Central European Journal of Operations Research 25 (2), 345-376.
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Abstract
One of the significant side-effects of growing urbanization is the constantly increasing amount of freight transportation in cities. This is mainly performed by conventional vans and trucks and causes a variety of problems such as road congestion, noise nuisance and pollution. Yet delivering goods to residents is a necessity. Sustainable concepts of city distribution networks are one way of mitigating difficulties of freight services. In this paper we develop a two-echelon city distribution scheme with temporal and spatial synchronization between cargo bikes and vans. The resulting heuristic is based on a greedy randomized adaptive search procedure with path relinking. In our computational experiments we use artificial data as well as real-world data of the city of Vienna. Furthermore we compare three distribution policies. The results show the costs caused by temporal synchronization and can give companies decision-support in planning a sustainable city distribution concept.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | Central European Journal of Operations Research |
Citation Index | SCI |
WU-Journal-Rating new | STRAT-C, VW-D |
Language | English |
Title | Synchronizing vans and cargo bikes in a city distribution network |
Volume | 25 |
Number | 2 |
Year | 2017 |
Page from | 345 |
Page to | 376 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/727/art%253A10.1007%252Fs10100-016-0441-z.pdf?originUrl=http%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1007%2Fs10100-016-0441-z&token2=exp=1493108559~acl=%2Fstatic%2Fpdf%2F727%2Fart%25253A10.1007%25252Fs10100-016-0441-z.pdf%3ForiginUrl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flink.springer.com%252Farticle%252F10.1007%252Fs10100-016-0441-z*~hmac=b2acae05f54862b49d227e1f0c3c1a17164a5188c1e1cd86feca51ededaebfc3 |
DOI | 10.1007/s10100-016-0441-z |
Associations
- Projects
- Consolidation and Coordination in Urban Areas
- People
- Anderluh, Alexandra (Former researcher)
- Hemmelmayr, Vera (Details)
- External
- Nolz, Pamela (AIT, Austria)
- Organization
- Institute for Transport and Logistics Management (Details)
- Research Institute for Supply Chain Management FI (Details)
- Research areas (Ă–STAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 1112 Logistics (Details)
- 5332 Transport economics (Details)
- 5347 Operations research (Details)