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Electric Vehicle Routing with Time Windows and Charging Stations from the Perspective of Customer Satisfaction

Applied Sciences
The use of electric vehicles in urban transportation is increasing daily due to their energy efficiency and environmental friendliness. In last-mile logistics, route optimization must consider charging station locations while balancing operational costs ...
Yasin Ünal, İnci Sarıçiçek, Sinem Bozkurt Keser, Ahmet Yazıcı   +3 more
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A robust routing approach for truck-UAV collaborative emergency supply delivery under uncertain wind conditions

European Transport Research Review
Efficient emergency distribution is critical for European disaster response. In Europe, although truck-UAV systems provide a flexible solution to logistics bottlenecks, the continent’s coastal regions and expansive plains experience highly volatile wind ...
Jing Bai, Lili Zhang, Jin Ran, Xingyuan Li   +3 more
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An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the pickup and delivery problem with time windows and scheduled lines [PDF]

, 2015
The Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows and Scheduled Lines (PDPTW-SL) concerns scheduling a set of vehicles to serve freight requests such that a part of the journey can be carried out on a scheduled public transportation line.
Demir, E., van Woensel, T.; id_orcid, Ghilas, V., Ghilas, Veaceslav, Demir, Emrah, Van Woensel, Tom, Woensel, van, T.; id_orcid   +6 more
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A Robust Competitive Global Supply Chain Network Design under Disruption: The Case of Medical Device Industry

International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research, 2015
In this study, an optimization model is proposed to design a Global Supply Chain (GSC) for a medical device manufacturer under disruption in the presence of pre-existing competitors and price inelasticity of demand.
Aliakbar Hasani, Seyed Hessameddin Zegordi   +1 more
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Simulation-Based Maritime Scheduling Optimization for Bidirectional Ship Flow in Multi-Chamber Lock Systems: Incorporating Chamber Operations for Efficient Management

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
This paper addresses the bidirectional multi-chamber lock scheduling problem by formulating a multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model that simultaneously minimizes average ship waiting time and maximizes chamber utilization.
Nini Zhang, Xin Li, Wen Xie, Sudong Xu, Weikai Tan, Cheng Cheng, Ran Yan   +6 more
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An adaptive neutrosophic large neighborhood search and its application [PDF]

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems
An adaptive large neighborhood search (ALNS) lacks a clear measure for assessing the improvement degree in the new solution, which causes fuzziness and uncertainty in the operator score.
Jun Jiang, Fangwei Zhang, Yiying Pan, Rui Wang, Zhu Han   +4 more
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Heuristic Algorithms for Heterogeneous and Multi-Trip Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Pickup and Delivery

World Electric Vehicle Journal
In light of the widespread use of electric vehicles for urban distribution, this paper delves into the electric vehicle routing problem (EVRP): specifically addressing multiple trips per vehicle, diverse vehicle types, and simultaneous pickup and ...
Li Wang, Yifan Ding, Zhiyuan Chen, Zhiyuan Su, Yufeng Zhuang   +4 more
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A novel optimization method for hazardous materials vehicle routing with temperature-based time windows [PDF]

PeerJ Computer Science
As a concrete achievement of sharing economy, sharing intermediate bulk containers (IBCs) have emerged and developed in recent years. Meanwhile, high temperature is one of the essential factors in routing optimal problems for vehicles with hazardous ...
Lu Ding, Fangwei Zhang, Jun Ye, Fanyi Kong, Minhui Jiao   +4 more
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A new large neighborhood search based matheuristic framework for rich vehicle routing problems

, 2015
In this paper a New Large Neighborhood Search Based Matheuristic Framework for Rich Vehicle Routing Problems is presented. The innovative aspect of the proposed approach concern the possibility to address large neighborhoods in reasonably small ...
MANCINI, SIMONA, Simona Mancini
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Adaptive large neighborhood search applied to the design of electronic circuits.

, 2018
In this paper, a new algorithm is proposed for solving the Gate Matrix Layout Problem (GMLP). This combinatorial problem is -Hard and aims to determine the physical layout of the components of an electronic circuit in order to minimize the number of ...
Santos, Vinícius Gandra Martins, Carvalho, Marco Antonio Moreira de   +1 more
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