Interval travel times for robust synchronization in city logistics vehicle routing

Patrick-Oliver Groß, Jan Fabian Ehmke and Dirk Christian Mattfeld

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020, vol. 143, issue C

Abstract: We propose a consistent information flow to integrate Interval Travel Times (ITT) into a city logistics vehicle routing problem with satellites. The consistent information flow encompasses the derivation of ITT, the usage of ITT in robust shortest path computation and the integration of ITT into robust vehicle routing. Based on the results of the information flow, robust meeting times of first-tier and second-tier vehicles are created. We evaluate the approach with large real-world traffic data sets. We observe that the integration of ITT leads to first-tier routes that are reasonably efficient and robust.

Keywords: travel time uncertainty; vehicle routing; city logistics; real-world data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2020.102058

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