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Cost, Emissions, and Customer Service Trade-Off Analysis In Pickup and Delivery Systems [2011-05]
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2011-05-01
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Abstract:This research offers a novel formulation for including emissions into fleet assignment and vehicle routing, and for the trade-offs faced by fleet operators between cost, emissions, and service quality. This approach enables evaluation of the impact of a variety of internal changes (e.g. time window schemes) and external policies (e.g. spatial restrictions), and enables comparisons of the relative impacts on fleet emissions. In an effort to apply the above approach to real fleets, three different case studies were developed. Each of these cases has significant differences in their fleet composition, customers' requirements and operational features that provide this research with the opportunity to explore different scenarios. The research includes estimations of the impact on cost, CO2 and NOX emissions from fleet upgrades, the impact on cost, emissions, and customer wait time when demand density or location changes, and the impact on cost, emissions, and customer wait time from congestion and time window flexibility. Additionally it shows that any infrastructure use restriction increases cost, and emissions. A discussion of the implications for policy makers and fleet operators in a variety of physical and transportation environments is also presented.
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