 Designing sustainable mid-haul logistics networks with intra-route multi-resource facilitiesMaximilian Schiffer, Michael Schneider and Gilbert Laporte European Journal of Operational Research, 2018, vol. 265, issue 2, 517-532 Abstract: Location-routing problems (LRPs) with intra-route facilities have recently gained the attention of researchers and practitioners. Intra-route facilities are used in the context of city logistics or alternative fuel vehicle fleets to keep vehicles operational on routes. In this paper, we extend the LRP with intra-route facilities to handle so-called combined facilities at which different replenishment services are offered to visiting vehicles. We present an adaptive large neighborhood search which is enhanced by a lower bounding procedure that helps to efficiently explore promising facility configurations. We demonstrate the competitiveness of the algorithm on existing benchmark sets for the single-resource LRP with intra-route facilities. In addition, we design new benchmark sets to assess the impact of combined intra-route facilities in logistics networks. We find that combined facilities help to reduce both the overall costs of the operated logistics network and the fleet size. Keywords: Routing; Location-routing; Intra-route facilities; Intermediate stops (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:265:y:2018:i:2:p:517-532 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2017.07.067 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier |
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