C. Archetti, D. Delle Donne, L. Alfandari, I. Ljubic
We study a delivery strategy for last-mile deliveries in urban areas which combines freight transportation with mass mobility systems. The idea is to use the residual capacity on public transport means for moving freights within the city. In particular, the system is such that parcels are first transported from origins to drop-in stations on public vehicles itineraries. Then, they are transported through public vehicles to drop-out stations, from where they are delivered to destination by freighters using green vehicles. The system is known as Freight-On-Transit (FOT). In this paper, we focus on the strategic decisions related to deciding which public vehicle lines and stop locations will take part to the service. We propose different formulations for the problem and effective heuristic solution approaches based on column generation. We perform exhaustive tests aimed at providing managerial insights on the performance of the system.
Palabras clave: freight-on-transit, network flow, column generation, mixed integer linear programming
Programado
Sesión Invitada Recent advances in transportation and supply chain optimisation
9 de junio de 2022 10:10
A16
