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Title:

Evaluation of Truck Ban Schemes Using Exact Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

Accession Number:

01476611

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper employs an exact solution approach for the Vehicle Routing and scheduling Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) based on the column generation scheme developed earlier by the authors, and presents evaluation of truck ban schemes from the environmental improvement aspect on a realistic logistics instance based on the Vehicle Information and Communication System (VICS) data, an intelligent transportation system (ITS) application in Japan. Success or otherwise, of truck ban scheme depends on the degree of optimization in the pre truck ban situation. Therefore two scenarios have been assumed; one where the freight carrier does not have perfect information about the travel time on road network links but they use sophisticated optimization methods (such as exact method) and the second scenario assumes a higher degree of optimization in pre-truck ban situation where the freight carrier has perfect information about the travel time and it uses exact optimization methods. It was found that uniform truck bans on low travel speed streets improves the situation in first scenario but have little effect in the second one. A sequential truck ban policy was also evaluated in scenario 2. A series of exact optimization and truck bans result in a solution, in which no congested link exists with severe NOx level, thereby, solving the local pollution problem but the overall NOx level is increased.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC20(4) Freight Air Quality.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-3498

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Qureshi, Ali Gul
Taniguchi, Eiichi
Yamada, Tadashi

Pagination:

12p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

VICS (Program : Japan)

Geographic Terms:

Japan

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; I10: Economics and Administration; I73: Traffic Control

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-3498

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:42PM