Distribution Route Optimization for Electric Vehicles in Urban Cold Chain Logistics for Fresh Products under Time-Varying Traffic Conditions

Zhao, Zhixue; Li, Xiamiao; Zhou, Xiancheng

doi:10.1155/2020/9864935

Cited by 37 publications

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“…(1) cold chain transport and path optimization of fresh produce [9,10], with research methods being mainly algorithmic [11,12]. (2) Contractual coordination of fresh produce supply chains [13,14], with game theory as the main method [15,16].…”

Section: Fresh Products Supply Chain Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contract Coordination of Fresh Agri-Product Supply Chain under O2O Model

Yang

Xiong

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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The development of the fresh-food e-commerce has led scholars to pay more attention to research on the agricultural product supply chain. This paper analyses the operation mode of the new O2O retail fresh supply chain by constructing the Stackelberg game model, takes the freshness and freshness-keeping efforts of fresh agricultural products as the main considerations, and analyses and compares the overall income of the supply chain under different decision-making modes. The results of the study show that: (1) In a centralized decision-making model, collaboration between suppliers and retailers online and offline can increase their respective revenues, and overall supply chain profits increase as the proportion of collaboration increases; (2) compared to decentralized decision-making, revenue-sharing contracts can increase the overall profitability of supply chain members and the supply chain when the revenue sharing factor is relatively high in the case of online and offline channel collaboration; (3) finally, the impact of revenue-sharing contracts on supply chain profitability is discussed through numerical analysis.

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Section: Fresh Products Supply Chain Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contract Coordination of Fresh Agri-Product Supply Chain under O2O Model

Yang

Xiong

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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“…An integrated algorithm, combining an ALNS with a VND, is used as solving approach. Zhao et al [124] and Zhao and Li [122] propose E-VRPs with time-varying traffic conditions. The goal is to plan the routing of fresh products in the urban cold chain, which is affected by the road type, customer time-windows requirements, freshness of products, and in-route loading queues.…”

Section: E-vrps Focusing On Battery Rechargementioning

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Electric Vehicle Routing, Arc Routing, and Team Orienteering Problems in Sustainable Transportation

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The increasing use of electric vehicles in road and air transportation, especially in last-mile delivery and city mobility, raises new operational challenges due to the limited capacity of electric batteries. These limitations impose additional driving range constraints when optimizing the distribution and mobility plans. During the last years, several researchers from the Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research communities have been developing optimization, simulation, and machine learning approaches that aim at generating efficient and sustainable routing plans for hybrid fleets, including both electric and internal combustion engine vehicles. After contextualizing the relevance of electric vehicles in promoting sustainable transportation practices, this paper reviews the existing work in the field of electric vehicle routing problems. In particular, we focus on articles related to the well-known vehicle routing, arc routing, and team orienteering problems. The review is followed by numerical examples that illustrate the gains that can be obtained by employing optimization methods in the aforementioned field. Finally, several research opportunities are highlighted.

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“…Chen et al studied the distribution of a variety of fresh agricultural products, formed a multi-chamber vehicle-routing problem, and established a cold-chain logistics distribution problem model with the objective of minimizing the total cost [ 5 ]. The minimum freshness requirement of customers has also been considered, and a two-level programming mathematical model was solved to optimize the cold-chain logistics distribution problem [ 6 ]. In view of the problem of high corruption and damage rates of fresh agricultural products occurring during the distribution process, related research has given some solutions.…”

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Green Vehicle-Routing Problem of Fresh Agricultural Products Considering Carbon Emission

Yao

Zhu

2022

IJERPH

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The need to reduce carbon emission to cope with climate change has gradually become a global consensus, which also poses a great challenge to cold-chain logistics companies. It forces them to implement green distribution strategies. To help the distribution companies reduce carbon emission, this paper studies two aspects—carbon tax value and investing in the freshness-keeping cost—and proposes corresponding solutions. A new green vehicle-routing model for fresh agricultural products with the goal of minimizing the total cost is proposed. To solve the model proposed, an improved ant-colony optimization (IACO) is designed specifically. On one hand, the experimental results show that the increase in carbon tax will restrict the carbon emission behaviors of the distribution companies, but it will also reduce their economic benefits to a certain extent, at the same time. On the other hand, investing in the freshness-keeping cost can help actively achieve the carbon emission reduction target, reduce the loss of fresh agricultural products in the distribution process, improve the company’s economic benefits and satisfy customers. The comparison results of different algorithms prove that the IACO proposed in this paper is more effective in solving the model, which can help increase the economic benefits of the companies and reduce carbon emission. This study provides a new solution for cold-chain logistics distribution companies to reduce carbon emission in the distribution process, and also provides a reference for government departments to formulate carbon tax policies.

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Distribution Route Optimization for Electric Vehicles in Urban Cold Chain Logistics for Fresh Products under Time-Varying Traffic Conditions

Cited by 37 publications

References 31 publications

Contract Coordination of Fresh Agri-Product Supply Chain under O2O Model

Contract Coordination of Fresh Agri-Product Supply Chain under O2O Model

Electric Vehicle Routing, Arc Routing, and Team Orienteering Problems in Sustainable Transportation

Green Vehicle-Routing Problem of Fresh Agricultural Products Considering Carbon Emission

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