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Component

Road-based transport plays an important role in the urban logistics system. Traffic congestion, idling and environmental emissions are some of the typical problems attributed to the urban freight transport. Freight carriers are typically interested in cost optimization; whereas other city logistics stakeholders would like to improve on the social objectives of safety and environment. This paper presents an extension of the classical vehicle routing problem to exclusively include these concerns around sensitive urban facilities such as hospitals, schools and old age homes. A detailed 100 m mesh data is used to identify penalty zones containing these facilities and the truck travel in these zones is penalized. A case study based on the real customer locations of three freight companies in Osaka area shows that the number of times delivery trucks pass by these sensitive facilities and the corresponding route distance surrounding such facilities can be reduced by the new model at a minor increase in delivery cost. Therefore, giving a win-win solution for all city logistics stakeholders.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT025 Standing Committee on Urban Freight Transportation.

01618707

17-02865

English

15p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References

Case studies; Costs; Delivery service; Delivery vehicles; Environmental impacts; Facilities; Freight traffic; Freight transportation support businesses; Hospitals; Logistics; Routes and routing; Schools; Urban areas

Osaka (Japan)

Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-02865

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 11:04AM