Journal
TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE
Volume 43, Issue 4, Pages 432-454Publisher
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1090.0279
Keywords
city logistics; advanced urban freight transportation; integrated short-term planning and management; service network design; vehicle routing
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City logistics aims to reduce the nuisances associated to freight transportation in urban areas while supporting their economic and social development. The fundamental idea is to view individual stakeholders and decisions as components of an integrated logistics system. This implies the coordination of shippers, carriers, and movements as well as the consolidation of loads of several customers and carriers into the same environment-friendly vehicles. City logistics explicitly aims to optimize such advanced urban transportation systems. We focus on a challenging city logistics planning issue, the integrated short-term scheduling of operations and management of resources, for the general case involving a two-tiered distribution structure. We investigate the main issues related to the problem, introduce a new problem class, propose both a general model and formulations for the main system components, and identify promising solution avenues.
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