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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@ARTICLE{Anderluh2017,
title = {Synchronizing vans and cargo bikes in a city distribution network},
author = {Alexandra Anderluh and Vera Hemmelmayr and Pamela Nolz},
year = {2017},
doi = { 10.1007/s10100-016-0441-z},
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},
volume = {25},
number = {2},
language = {EN},
pages = {345-376},
journal = {Central European Journal of Operations Research},
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.},
}