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{"title":"Integrated optimization of sequential processes: General analysis and application to public transport","authors":"Philine Schiewe ,&nbsp;Anita Schöbel","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Planning in public transportation is traditionally done in a sequential process: After the network design process, the lines and their frequencies are planned. When these are fixed, a timetable is determined and based on the timetable, the vehicle and crew schedules are optimized. After each step, passenger routes are adapted to model the behavior of the passengers as realistically as possible. It has been mentioned in many publications that such a sequential process is sub-optimal, and integrated approaches, mainly heuristics, are under consideration. Sequential planning is not only common in public transportation planning but also in many other applied problems, among others in supply chain management, or in organizing hospitals efficiently.</p><p>The contribution of this paper hence is two-fold: on the one hand, we develop an integrated integer programming formulation for the three planning stages line planning, (periodic) timetabling, and vehicle scheduling which also includes the integrated optimization of the passenger routes. This gives us an exact formulation rewriting the sequential approach as an integrated problem. We discuss properties of the integrated formulation and apply it experimentally to data sets from the <span>LinTim</span> library. On small examples, we get an exact optimal objective function value for the integrated formulation which can be compared with the outcome of the sequential process.</p><p>On the other hand, we propose a mathematical formulation for general sequential processes which can be used to build integrated formulations. For comparing sequential processes with their integrated counterparts we analyze the <em>price of sequentiality</em>, i.e., the ratio between the solution obtained by the sequential process and an integrated solution. We also experiment with different possibilities for partial integration of a subset of the sequential problems and again illustrate our results using the case of public transportation. The obtained results may be useful for other sequential processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45871,"journal":{"name":"EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192437622000024/pdfft?md5=c82aaf734647a5a861d594049ee30c82&pid=1-s2.0-S2192437622000024-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126289125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Formulating multi-class user equilibrium using mixed-integer linear programming","authors":"Xiao Lin ,&nbsp;Ludovic Leclercq ,&nbsp;Lóránt Tavasszy ,&nbsp;Hans van Lint","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We introduce an approach to formulate and solve the multi-class user equilibrium traffic assignment as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problem. Compared to simulation approaches, the analytical MILP formulation makes the solution of network assignment problems more tractable. When applied in a multi-class context, it obviates the need to assume a symmetrical influence between classes and thereby allows richer traffic behavior to be taken into account. Also, it integrates naturally in optimization problems such as maintenance planning and traffic management. We develop the model and apply it for the Sioux Falls network, showing that it outperforms the traditional Beckmann-based and MSA approaches in smaller-scale problems. Further research opportunities lie in developing extensions of MILP-based assignment, with different variants of user equilibrium or dynamic assignment, and in improving the model and solution algorithms to allow large-scale application.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45871,"journal":{"name":"EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S219243762200022X/pdfft?md5=43a9871032da36374820fc98c5ee382c&pid=1-s2.0-S219243762200022X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128685876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rapid fulfillment of online orders in omnichannel grocery retailing","authors":"Christian Dethlefs ,&nbsp;Manuel Ostermeier ,&nbsp;Alexander Hübner","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Establishing innovative fulfillment options for online orders has become a key challenge for bricks-and-mortar retailers. A mere focus on store sales is no longer affordable due to the competition by pure online players. Retailers are continuously developing new approaches for online order fulfillment and last-mile logistics. Further shortening lead times is becoming even more important in this context. One recently developed concept is the omnichannel approach where existing structures are utilized and distribution centers (DCs) and local stores are integrated into a holistic fulfillment concept. This concept is especially relevant when retailers are providing fast delivery services (e.g., same-hour delivery). It resembles a multi-depot vehicle routing problem where all facilities act as depots and orders are assigned based on processing and transportation costs as well as available delivery capacity.</p><p>We address this new concept and present the novel problem for rapid integrated order fulfillment in grocery retailing. We empirically identify decision-relevant costs for order processing in stores and develop an approach for the evaluation of overall fulfillment costs. Our work considers the order assignment to heterogeneous depots and vehicle routing for each depot depending on depot-specific fulfillment costs using a tailored cluster-first-route-second heuristic. We show that integrated rapid order fulfillment can reduce costs by an average of 7.4% compared to order fulfillment from DCs. However, as order processing costs in stores remain a significant cost factor, DCs will always have some relevance and cannot entirely be replaced by delivery from stores. Our results highlight the importance of modeling order processing costs in stores for actual order fulfillment decisions in a heterogeneous network.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45871,"journal":{"name":"EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192437622000097/pdfft?md5=f37dd29594fc6abb0fe7d07bc0d4e372&pid=1-s2.0-S2192437622000097-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115833564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A branch-and-price algorithm for the robust single-source capacitated facility location problem under demand uncertainty","authors":"Jaehyeon Ryu ,&nbsp;Sungsoo Park","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2021.100069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2021.100069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider the robust single-source capacitated facility location problem with uncertainty in customer demands. A cardinality-constrained uncertainty set is assumed for the robust problem. To solve it efficiently, we propose an allocation-based formulation derived by Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition and a branch-and-price algorithm. The computational experiments show that our branch-and-price algorithm outperforms CPLEX in many cases, which solves the ordinary robust reformulation. We also examine the trade-off relationship between the empirical probability of infeasibility and the additional costs incurred and observe that the robustness of solutions can be improved significantly with small additional costs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45871,"journal":{"name":"EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192437621000340/pdfft?md5=973c919a5b186604228adc11c47ebfd9&pid=1-s2.0-S2192437621000340-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123253344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ring hierarchical hub network design problem: Exact and heuristic solution methods","authors":"Alireza Eydi ,&nbsp;Amir Khaleghi ,&nbsp;Khaled Barzegar","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100096","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100096","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we study the hierarchical hub network design problem with a ring-star-star structure. In this problem, the hubs are located in two layers. In the first layer, central hubs (main hubs) are located in a ring structure, and in the second layer, secondary hubs are located. Each secondary hub is allocated to a central hub. Other demand points can also be allocated to each of these hubs (central hubs or secondary hubs). The objective is to minimize transportation costs on the network. This problem applies to communication networks when establishing direct links between demand nodes is not cost-effective, and there are two levels of service for customers. Also, the ring structure is used to reduce costs associated with full communication between central hubs. We present a mixed-integer programming model for the problem and report the results of the problem solving for a numerical example on the CAB dataset. Also, we present three solution methods for the problem. First, by exploiting the decomposable structure of the proposed model, we introduce an accelerated Benders decomposition algorithm. Then, we present a hybrid genetic algorithm that uses the Dijkstra algorithm to evaluate solutions. Next, we present a hybrid variable neighborhood search algorithm that uses the Dijkstra algorithm to calculate the cost of each solution. Also, a relax-and-fix algorithm is proposed to find near-optimal feasible solutions for the problem. Computational results are presented on the USA423 dataset. The results show that the proposed relax-and-fix algorithm can solve instances with up to 100 nodes. Also, the proposed hybrid algorithms can solve instances with up to 423 nodes. The performance of the proposed hybrid variable neighborhood search is better than the proposed hybrid genetic algorithm in solving large-sized instances.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45871,"journal":{"name":"EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192437622000218/pdfft?md5=2b394226a408a658bd462d6743c79ffb&pid=1-s2.0-S2192437622000218-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121099779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crane scheduling for end-of-aisle picking: Complexity and efficient solutions based on the vehicle routing problem","authors":"Nils Boysen ,&nbsp;Simon Emde ,&nbsp;Konrad Stephan","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To relieve human order pickers from unproductive walking through a warehouse, parts-to-picker systems deliver demanded stock keeping units (SKUs) toward picking workstations. In a wide-spread parts-to-picker setup, a crane-operated automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) delivers bins with demanded SKUs toward an end-of-aisle picking workstation and returns them back into the rack once the picks are completed. We consider the scheduling of the crane that operates subsequent dual commands. Each dual command combines a retrieval request for another SKU bin demanded at the picking workstation with a storage request, where a bin that has already been processed and passed through the bin buffer is returned to its dedicated storage position in the ASRS. This system setup in general and the resulting crane scheduling problem in particular have been an active field of research for more than 30 years. We add the following contributions to this stream of research: We finally prove that the crane scheduling problem is strongly NP-hard. Furthermore, we show that, although only a single vehicle (namely, the crane) is applied, the problem is equivalent to the traditional vehicle routing problem (VRP). This opens the rich arsenal of very efficient VRP solvers, which substantially outperform existing tailor-made algorithms from the literature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45871,"journal":{"name":"EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192437622000103/pdfft?md5=1723a64ccf0bfabd72badad387b41ac3&pid=1-s2.0-S2192437622000103-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91750386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Helicopter recovery in an oil and gas industry: Model and solution approaches","authors":"Jonathan De La Vega ,&nbsp;Thiago Vieira ,&nbsp;Mateus Santana ,&nbsp;Vitória Pureza ,&nbsp;Reinaldo Morabito ,&nbsp;Roberto Tavares ,&nbsp;Yan Bastos ,&nbsp;Paulo César Ribas","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although optimization techniques have been successfully applied for a number of airline operations, aircraft recovery remains a challenge for both practitioners and researchers due to its complexity and the usual need of a quick response in practical settings. In this paper, we consider the case of a Brazilian oil and gas company that uses a heterogeneous fleet of helicopters for passenger transportation from a few mainland aerodromes to maritime units. The major difficulties in rescheduling delayed flights are resource limitations and realistic features of the company combined with safety and management practices. The problem consists of determining joint daily flight reschedules for all aerodromes that satisfy operational constraints and recovers all pending flights, while minimizing flight transfers among aerodromes, usage of helicopters and overall flight delays. We propose a mixed integer programming (MIP) model, aiming to appropriately represent the problem, and MIP-based local search and two-phase heuristics to cope with larger realistic problem instances. Computational results obtained with instances collected in the case study show the potential of these approaches to deal with this real-life aircraft recovery problem.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45871,"journal":{"name":"EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192437622000115/pdfft?md5=7a72e503d599c1f0098aab128f8e47ae&pid=1-s2.0-S2192437622000115-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91750816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The price of anarchy in truckload transportation spot markets","authors":"Michael Haughton ,&nbsp;Borzou Rostami ,&nbsp;Shervin Espahbod","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100071","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A concept of relevance to spot markets for truck-based freight transportation services is the <em>price of anarchy</em> (<em>PoA</em>)<em>,</em> which defines the performance inferiority of decentralized market mechanisms for consummating transactions (vis-à-vis centralized mechanisms). To examine this concept in the context of transportation spot markets, this study uses a combination of behavioral experiments and mathematical optimization. The paper's contributions to the research literature for that context involve (1) addressing the case of freight transportation service providers having service requests information spanning multiple periods; (2) analyzing multiple performance measures; (2) accounting for the performance effects of human behavior; and (3) introducing new behavioral experiments as well as novel and effective analytical procedures to tackle truck-to-load assignment problems. Among the paper's most salient findings is that when performance is measured as the market participants' financial outcome, human behavior in buyer-seller interactions could result in a doubling of the <em>PoA</em>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45871,"journal":{"name":"EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192437622000012/pdfft?md5=65f6a971e89fef250347b2d5e7de4c9d&pid=1-s2.0-S2192437622000012-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91750808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Electric flight scheduling with battery-charging and battery-swapping opportunities","authors":"Mihaela Mitici,&nbsp;Madalena Pereira,&nbsp;Fabrizio Oliviero","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the current advances in aircraft design and Lithium-Ion batteries, electric aircraft are expected to serve as a replacement for conventional, short-range aircraft. This paper addresses the main operational challenges for short-range flights operated with electric aircraft: determining the investment needs for a fleet of electric aircraft, and the logistics of charging stations and swap batteries required to support these flights. A mixed-integer linear program with two phases is proposed. In the first phase, a schedule for flight and battery recharge is developed for a fleet of electric aircraft. In the second phase, optimal times for battery charging are determined, together with an optimal sizing of the number of charging stations and swap batteries. We illustrate our model for short-range flights to and from an European airport and for an electric aircraft designed based on the operational characteristics of a conventional, narrow-body aircraft.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45871,"journal":{"name":"EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192437622000036/pdfft?md5=9d5517088b6f492cad8228e066b885b1&pid=1-s2.0-S2192437622000036-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91750819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bundle selection approaches for collaborative practical-oriented Pickup and Delivery Problems","authors":"Cornelius Rüther,&nbsp;Julia Rieck","doi":"10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Due to the increasing price pressure in the less-than-truckload (LTL) market, horizontal cooperation is an effective and efficient way for small- and medium-sized LTL carriers to enhance their profits by exchanging requests. For this purpose, a decentralized auction-based collaboration framework has proven to provide a good approach. In this paper, such a collaboration framework is adopted and extended by applying it to a practical-oriented routing problem, the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows and Heterogeneous Vehicle Fleets. Particularly, we analyse the bundle selection process made by the auctioneers, which is a stochastic problem and specify which requests are supposed to be offered together in a bundle to the cooperating carriers. For the purpose of solving the selection problem properly, we implement a new procedure required due to the characteristics of the considered routing problem: a scenario-based bundle selection approach. In order to make this approach applicable, two pre-selection techniques (cluster- and neural network-based) are developed. Our approach is evaluated on 240 collaboration network instances created from well-known pickup and delivery research data sets generated by Li and Lim (2001). The collaboration framework results are compared with respect to the profit to individual transportation planning of each carrier (lower threshold) as well as centralized transportation planning of all carriers (upper threshold). It can be shown that the auction-based collaboration approach is up to 43.49% better than the individual planning as well as exhausts at least 53.5% of the centralized transportation planning potential on average.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45871,"journal":{"name":"EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192437622000127/pdfft?md5=219891a1a09df27bd5c55b71adba023a&pid=1-s2.0-S2192437622000127-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91750385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}