The transportation of hazardous materials is always accompanied by considerable risk that will impact public and environment security. As an efficient and reliable transportation organization, a multimodal service should participate in the transportation of hazardous materials. In this study, we focus on transporting hazardous materials through the multimodal service network and explore the haz...

This paper addresses a Three-Dimensional Loading Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (3L-CVRP) which combines a three-dimensional loading problem and vehicle routing problem in distribution logistics. The problem requires the combinatorial optimization of a feasible loading solution and a successive routing of vehicles to satisfy client demands, where all vehicles must start and terminate at a ...

In this article, multiple-product PVRP with pickup and delivery that is used widely in goods distribution or other service companies, especially by railways, was introduced. A mathematical formulation was provided for this problem. Each product had a set of vehicles which could carry the product and pickup and delivery could simultaneously occur. To solve the problem, two meta-heuristic methods...

One of the most important points in a supply chain is customer-driven modeling, which reduces the bullwhip effect in the supply chain, as well as the costs of investment on the inventory and efficient transshipment of the products. Their homogeneity is reflected in the inventory-routing problem, which is a combination of distribution and inventory management. This paper considers a multi object...

This article deals with the intermodal transportation problem for the commodities delivery between different locations. The time – dependent shortest path planning, in which the travel time along each arc is a known function of the departure time along the arc, is a very important problem and arises in many practical application such as a routing system of a container used in the time – depende...

The integrated production, inventory and distribution routing problem (PDRP) is concerned with coordinating the production, inventory and delivery operations to meet customer demand with an objective to minimize the cost. The particular PDRP that we consider in this study also involves heterogeneous transporters with non-instantaneous traveling times and many customer demand centers each with i...

The fleet operation model in which electric vehicles coexist with traditional is becoming increasingly popular. Because have certain disadvantages and usage limitations, the multi-center management of distribution mixed fleets very complex. There no research on vehicle routing problem based integration reverse logistics dynamic energy consumption. In response to this challenge, study proposes a...

Hazardous material (Hazmat) transportation is an inseparable section of the industry, despite its major financial and health risks. In order to optimize Hazmat transportation, a multi-objective routing model with time windows employed where risk distance are minimized. Due uncertainty risk, Z-number fuzzy approach used estimate in which probability occurrence severity considered context Z-infor...