We present a synchronized routing and scheduling problem that arises in the forest industry, as a variation of the log-truck scheduling problem. It combines routing and scheduling of trucks with specific constraints related to the Canadian forestry context. This problem includes aspects such as pick-up and delivery, multiple products, inventory stock, multiple supply points and multiple demand ...

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complies with the regulations of the University and meets the accepted standards with respect to originality and quality. Cross-docking is a logistics management concept that has been gaining global recognition in less-than-truckload logistics industries and retail firms. In cross-docking terminals, shipments are unloaded from inbound trucks at strip doors, consolidated insider cross-docks acco...

Abstract Shipbuilding occupies an important position in national defense and economy, which belongs to a typical large-scale complex production. In the modern shipbuilding mode, segment outfitting process is bottleneck of whole shipbuilding. The cycle long, there are many resource constraints process. At present, China’s enterprises adopt method storage-yard based outfitting, relatively extensi...

Container terminals (CTs) play an important role in the modern logistics and transportation industry. The utilization of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) can be effectively facilitated by reducing their empty running. existing strategies cannot guarantee full load AGVs during because complex constraints container scheduling. This work proposes a double-cycling AGV scheduling model that ensures ...

Aiming towards a sustainable supply chain, Physical Internet (PI) has been presented as global logistics network with standardized PI-containers. PI-nodes, and more specifically PI-hubs, are one of the key elements concept. This paper focuses on optimising operations in Road-Road PI-hub, which was not addressed literature. PI-hubs designed to transfer PI-containers between suppliers’ customers’...

This study compared the environmental impacts of composting yard wastes in windrows with using them in place of soil as alternative daily cover (ADC) in landfills. The Life Cycle Assessment was made using the SimaPro LCA software and showed that the ADC scenario is more beneficial for the environment than windrow composting. ADC use is also a less costly means of disposal of yard wastes. This f...