Journal article
Optimizing for total costs in vehicle routing in urban areas
Transportation research. Part E, Logistics and transportation review, Vol.116, pp.242-265
08/01/2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2018.06.008
Abstract
•We analyze complex objective functions for routing in urban areas.•We compare the minimization of total costs and emissions to traditional objectives.•We compare urban routes from an extensive set of computational experiments.•We show how different minimizing emissions is from minimizing total costs.•We analyze the value of path flexibility in urban routing.
Minimizing cost is one of the most important objectives for logistics service providers, and it is not clear how an emphasis on minimizing emissions impacts costs. Most methodologies for routing currently minimize distance or travel time. This paper compares total cost (based on driver and fuel costs), fuel consumption/emissions, distance, and travel time for routes resulting from optimizing each of those measures. We explore the impact of multiple factors on these measures as well as the structure of the routes. Our results suggest that companies need rich cost models and routing algorithms with path flexibility to truly minimize total costs.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Optimizing for total costs in vehicle routing in urban areas
- Creators
- Jan Fabian Ehmke - Otto-von-Guericke University MagdeburgAnn M. Campbell - University of IowaBarrett W. Thomas - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Transportation research. Part E, Logistics and transportation review, Vol.116, pp.242-265
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.tre.2018.06.008
- ISSN
- 1366-5545
- eISSN
- 1878-5794
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Bus Admin College; Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984380519302771
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