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Reduction of CO2 Emissions in Cumulative Multi-Trip Vehicle Routing Problems with Limited Duration

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In recent years, as a result of the increase in environmental problems, green logistics has become a focus of interest by researchers, governments, policy makers, and investors. In this study, a cumulative multi-trip vehicle routing problem with limited duration (CumMTVRP-LD) is modelled by taking into account the reduction of CO 2 emissions. In classical vehicle routing problems (VRP), each vehicle can perform only one trip. Because of the high investment costs of additional vehicles, organizations allow the vehicles to perform multiple trips as in multi-trip vehicle routing problems (MTVRP), which reflects the real requirements better than the classical VRP. This study contributes to the literature by using a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation and a simulated annealing (SA) based solution methodology for CumMTVRP-LD, which considers the minimization of fuel consumption as the objective function. According to preliminary computational results using benchmark problems in the literature, the proposed methodology obtained promising results in terms of solution quality and computational time.

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This research is partially supported by LATNA Laboratory, NRU HSE, RF government grant, ag. 11.G34.31.0057., and D. Cinar is supported by TUBITAK- BIDEB 2219-International Postdoctoral Research Scholarship Program during this study at the University of Florida. We thank the anonymous reviewers for providing insightful comments and directions which has resulted in this paper.

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    Didem Cinar

  2. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Didem Cinar, Konstantinos Gakis & Panos M. Pardalos

  3. Laboratory of algorithms and technologies for network analysis (LATNA), National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

    Panos M. Pardalos

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Cinar, D., Gakis, K. & Pardalos, P.M. Reduction of CO2 Emissions in Cumulative Multi-Trip Vehicle Routing Problems with Limited Duration. Environ Model Assess 20, 273–284 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-014-9434-2

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