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The impact of depot location, fleet composition and routing on emissions in city logistics

The impact of depot location, fleet composition and routing on emissions in city logistics
The impact of depot location, fleet composition and routing on emissions in city logistics
This paper investigates the combined impact of depot location, fleet composition and routing decisions on vehicle emissions in city logistics. We consider a city in which goods need to be delivered from a depot to customers located in nested zones characterized by different speed limits. The objective is to minimize the total depot, vehicle and routing cost, where the latter can be defined with respect to the cost of fuel consumption and CO$_2$ emissions. A new powerful adaptive large neighborhood search metaheuristic is developed and successfully applied to a large pool of new benchmark instances. Extensive analyses are performed to empirically assess the effect of various problem parameters, such as depot cost and location, customer distribution and heterogeneous vehicles on key performance indicators, including fuel consumption, emissions and operational costs. Several managerial insights are presented.
location-routing, fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, heterogeneous fleet, city logistics, adaptive large neighborhood search metaheuristic
0191-2615
81-102
Koc, C.
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Bektas, T.
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Jabali, O.
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Laporte, G.
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Koc, C., Bektas, T., Jabali, O. and Laporte, G. (2016) The impact of depot location, fleet composition and routing on emissions in city logistics. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 84, 81-102. (doi:10.1016/j.trb.2015.12.010).

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This paper investigates the combined impact of depot location, fleet composition and routing decisions on vehicle emissions in city logistics. We consider a city in which goods need to be delivered from a depot to customers located in nested zones characterized by different speed limits. The objective is to minimize the total depot, vehicle and routing cost, where the latter can be defined with respect to the cost of fuel consumption and CO$_2$ emissions. A new powerful adaptive large neighborhood search metaheuristic is developed and successfully applied to a large pool of new benchmark instances. Extensive analyses are performed to empirically assess the effect of various problem parameters, such as depot cost and location, customer distribution and heterogeneous vehicles on key performance indicators, including fuel consumption, emissions and operational costs. Several managerial insights are presented.

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Accepted/In Press date: 16 December 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 January 2016
Published date: February 2016
Keywords: location-routing, fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, heterogeneous fleet, city logistics, adaptive large neighborhood search metaheuristic
Organisations: Centre of Excellence in Decision, Analytics & Risk Research

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Local EPrints ID: 385178
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/385178
ISSN: 0191-2615
PURE UUID: b8243e6d-a47e-4e3b-8d11-40c1be10bbb3
ORCID for T. Bektas: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0634-144X

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Date deposited: 18 Jan 2016 11:09
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Author: C. Koc
Author: T. Bektas ORCID iD
Author: O. Jabali
Author: G. Laporte

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