freight transportation

Toward Efficient Transportation Electrification of Heavy-Duty Trucks: Joint Scheduling of Truck Routing and Charging

  • Mikhail Bragin
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Linear Programming, Combinatorial Optimization, Transportation Tags

    The timely transportation of goods to customers is an essential component of economic activities. However, heavy-duty diesel trucks that deliver goods contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions within many large metropolitan areas, including Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. To facilitate freight electrification, this paper proposes joint routing and charging (JRC) scheduling for electric … Read more

    The forwarder planning problem in a two-echelon network

  • Massimo Di Francesco
  • Manlio Gaudioso
  • Enrico Gorgone
  • Paola Zuddas
    • Categories Approximation Algorithms, Transportation Tags , ,

    This paper is motivated by the case of a forwarder in dealing with inland transportation planning from a seaport, where inbound containers from the sea are filled with pallets, which have different destinations in the landside. Although this forwarder does not have or control any vehicle, he is required to plan the assignment of containers … Read more