Low-Carbon Transport for Prefabricated Buildings: Optimizing Capacitated Truck–Trailer Routing Problem with Time Windows

Jiajie Zhou (), Qiang Du, Qian Chen, Zhongnan Ye, Libiao Bai and Yi Li
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Jiajie Zhou: School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
Qiang Du: School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
Qian Chen: School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
Zhongnan Ye: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, China
Libiao Bai: School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
Yi Li: School of Transportation Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China

Mathematics, 2025, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-18

Abstract: The transportation of prefabricated components is challenged by the particularity of large cargo transport and urban road conditions, restrictions on parking, height, and weight. To address these challenges and to promote low-carbon logistics, this paper investigates the transportation of prefabricated components by leveraging separable fleets of trucks and trailers. Focusing on real-world constraints, this paper formulates the capacitated truck and trailer routing problem with time windows (CTTRPTW) incorporating carbon emissions, and designs a dynamic adaptive hybrid algorithm combining simulated annealing with tabu search (DASA-TS) to solve this model. The efficiency and robustness of the methodology are validated through two computational experiments. The results indicate that the DASA-TS consistently demonstrates excellent performance across all evaluations, with significant reductions in both transportation costs and carbon emissions costs for prefabricated components, particularly in large-scale computational instances. This study contributes to promoting the optimization of low-carbon transport for prefabricated components, offering guidance for routing design involving complex and large cargo, and supporting the sustainable development of urban logistics.

Keywords: truck–trailer routing problem; prefabricated buildings; heuristic algorithm; low-carbon transportation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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