Green Logistics has emerged as the new agenda item in supply chain management. The
traditional objective of distribution management has been upgraded to minimizing system …

With the rapid development of the sharing economy, outsourcing logistics operations to third
party logistics has become an efficient way of reducing costs in freight transportation. It can …

The rapid development of modern logistics and e-commerce highlights the importance of
exploring various modes of transportation in the last-mile delivery (LMD) process. However …

We introduce a two-echelon urban delivery problem with second-level unmanned vehicles.
This problem typically applies for delivering parcels or other small commodities to …

The problem studied in this paper is the open vehicle routing problem with time windows.
This problem is different from the better known vehicle routing problem with time windows …

In open vehicle routing problems, the vehicles are not required to return to the depot after
completing service. In this paper, we present the first exact optimization algorithm for the …

Multi echelon distribution systems have become more common in recent years. This paper
addresses the two echelon open location routing problem (2E-OLRP) which is a variant of …

In order to cut the costs of third-party logistics companies and respond to the Chinese
government's low-carbon economy plans, this paper studies the more practical and complex …

In this paper, an exact solution approach is described for solving a real-life school bus
routing problem (SBRP) for transporting the students of an elementary school throughout …

In this paper, we address the Multi-Depot Open Vehicle Routing Problem (MDOVRP), which
is a generalization of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) where vehicles start …