This paper introduces a green inventory routing problem with a heterogeneous fleet which extends the conventional inventory routing problem by considering environmental impacts and heterogeneous vehicles. A comprehensive objective is proposed, which minimizes the sum of inventory cost and routing cost, where the latter includes driver wage, vehicle fixed cost, fuel and emission costs, in which ...

In this paper, three solutions for scheduling problem of the Single-Load and Multi-Load Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) in Container Terminals are proposed. The problem is formulated as Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization. When capacity of the vehicles is one container, the problem is a minimum cost flow model. This model is solved by the highest performance Algorithm, i.e. Network Simple...

In the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), a set of identical vehicles, based at a central depot, is to be optimally routed to supply customers with known demands subject to vehicle capacity constraints. An important variant of the VRP arises when a fleet of vehicles characterized by different capacities and costs, is available for distribution activities. The problem is known as the Mixe...

In this paper, the stability analysis and control design of heterogeneous traffic flow is considered. It is assumed that the traffic flow consists of infinite number of cooperative non-identical vehicular platoons. Two different networks are investigated in stability analysis of heterogeneous traffic flow: 1) inter-platoon network which deals with the communication topology of lead vehicles and...

This paper develops an MILP model, named Satisfactory-Green Vehicle Routing Problem. It consists of routing a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles in order to serve a set of customers within predefined time windows. In this model in addition to the traditional objective of the VRP, both the pollution and customers’ satisfaction have been taken into account. Meanwhile, the introduced model prepares a...

In this paper, we propose a method to analyze the longitudinal dynamics of heterogeneous connected vehicle systems including human-driven vehicles and vehicles driven by connected cruise control. Human reaction time and digital sampling time are incorporated in the models. Conditions of plant stability and head-to-tail string stability are presented.

In this paper, we consider a new variant of the Time-Constrained Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problem (TCHVRP). In this problem, the cost and travel time of any given arc vary by vehicle type within a heterogeneous eet. In particular, we make no assumptions about Pareto dominance across vehicles; nor do we assume that cost and time are correlated. Our research is motivated by situations in whi...