We consider the Commodity constrained Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem (CSDVRP), a routing problem where customers may request multiple commodities. The vehicles can deliver any set of commodities, and multiple visits to a customer are allowed only if the customer requests multiple commodities. If the customer is visited more than once, the different vehicles will deliver different sets o...

Supply chain excellence has a real huge impact on business strategy. Building supply chains (SCs) as flexible system represents one of the most exciting opportunities to create value. This requires integrated decision making amongst autonomous chain partners with effective decision knowledge sharing among them. The key to success lies in knowing which decision has more impact on the supply chai...

In this paper we demonstrate a novel system Soft-Swipe, which can enable highly accurate pairing of vehicles to respective lanes in a wide-range of vehicle-based multi-lane service stations using economical general-purpose commodity communication and sensing technology. To study the system, we consider an example application of pairing vehicles to respective quality check bays in an automobile ...

A real-time traffic management policy that integrates signal control and multi-commodity routing of connected vehicles in networks with multiple destinations is developed. The proposed based on a formulation the store-and-forward model assumes all are able to exchange information infrastructure. Vehicles share about their current location final destination. Based this information, strategy dete...

Following the occurrence of unexpected events and natural disasters, a highly important relief operation is the transferring of relief commodities from the distribution centers (CDs) to shelters. In this paper, a three-level network consisting of depot of vehicles, distribution centers and shelters has been considered for routing and scheduling of relief vehicles through introducing a multi-obj...

Network freight flow consolidation organizes the commodity flow with special attention to the minimization of the flow costs but the efficiency of transport resources is not addressed. In contrast, vehicle routing targets primarily the maximization of the efficiency of transport resources but the commodity-related preferences are treated as inferior requirements. This article is about the probl...