Dataset for the electric capacitated traveling salesman problem

Editorial: Introduction to the special issue “Data in Management and Decision Engineering”

“…In this first attempt to collect valuable datasets from various management and decision engineering applications, we focused on areas that are of high research interest, and thus, we primarily invited experts from topics of management and decision engineering that have garnered broad academic and lay interest recently. Such areas include logistics and delivery problems [ [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] ], energy management and renewables [ 5 , 6 ], and stock and resource management [ 7 , 8 ]. Considering the value of the submitted data articles, we believe that more focused special issues on these topics could be organized in the near future.…”

“…In [ 4 ], a dataset for the Electric Capacitated Travelling Salesman Problem (EC-TSP) is presented. Numerous cities seek to shift toward more sustainable routing models and tackle traffic congestion.…”

“…This EC-TSP describes the e-cargo bike parcel distribution problem in urban environments. To enable the assessment of e-cargo bikes versus typical delivery vans in terms of operational efficiency and CO 2 e emissions [ 4 ] introduces a dataset of 9 instances comprised of 14–29 nodes each, where real city centers of Athens, Thessaloniki, Patra, and Larisa in Greece are considered.…”