The Effects of the Tractor and Semitrailer Routing Problem on Mitigation of Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Hongqi Li, Yanran Li, Yue Lu, Qiang Song and Jun Zhang

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-14

Abstract:

The incorporation of emissions minimization in the vehicle routing problem (VRP) is of critical importance to enterprise practice. Focusing on the tractor and semitrailer routing problem with full truckloads between any two terminals of the network, this paper proposes a mathematical programming model with the objective of minimizing emissions per ton-kilometer. A simulated annealing (SA) algorithm is given to solve practical-scale problems. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, a lower bound is developed. Computational experiments on various problems generated randomly and a realistic instance are conducted. The results show that the proposed methods are effective and the algorithm can provide reasonable solutions within an acceptable computational time.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/809135

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