This chapter refers to an innovative urban freight distribution scheme aimed at reducing the externalities connected with the freight delivery process. Both packages destined for commercial activities and private consumers are taken into account. It focuses on the problem of choosing the boxes to be loaded on each vehicle and the related choice of the route to be assigned to each vehicle: from the urban distribution centers (UDCs) to the first stop where the first box should be unloaded, to the second stop where the second box should be unloaded, and then back to the UDC. A methodology for this specific routing problem is proposed and its application to the case study of Genoa city center is presented. Some modifications to the original problem have been proposed because the original capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) problem requires that each customer must be served by a maximum of one delivery route.
The Routing Problem of an Innovative Urban Freight Distribution Scheme
2016-05-27
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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