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The Green Sequencing and Routing Problem

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Computational Logistics (ICCL 2022)

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The paper deals with a sequencing and routing problem originated by a real-world application context. The problem consists in defining the best sequence of locations to visit within a warehouse for the storage and/or retrieval of a given set of items during a specified time horizon, by considering some specific requirements and operating policies which are typical of the kind of warehouse under study. A fleet composed of both electric (i.e., equipped with a lithium-ion battery) and conventional (i.e., with internal combustion engine) forklifts is considered. We model the problem in terms of constrained multicommodity flows on a space-time network, and we extend a matheuristic approach proposed for the case of only conventional vehicles. Preliminary computational results are also presented.

The research has been supported by Polo Universitario Sistemi Logistici di Livorno and funded by project PRA 2020 “Analisi di reti complesse: dalla teoria alle applicazioni” of the University of Pisa.

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Lanza, G., Passacantando, M., Scutellà, M.G. (2022). The Green Sequencing and Routing Problem. In: de Armas, J., Ramalhinho, H., Voß, S. (eds) Computational Logistics. ICCL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13557. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16579-5_16

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