Synchronizing vans and cargo bikes in a city distribution network |
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Authors: | Anderluh Alexandra Hemmelmayr Vera C. Nolz Pamela C. |
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Affiliation: | 1.WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Vienna, Austria ;2.AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria ; |
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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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