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{"title":"Exploring spatiotemporal heterogeneity of urban green freight delivery parking based on new energy vehicle GPS data","authors":"Wenbo Lu ,&nbsp;Yong Zhang ,&nbsp;Jinhua Xu ,&nbsp;Zheng Yuan ,&nbsp;Peikun Li ,&nbsp;Mingye Zhang ,&nbsp;Hai L. Vu","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103870","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103870","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To enhance the efficiency and sustainability of urban freight operations, China has initiated the Urban Green Freight Delivery (UGFD) project, which involves optimizing access control policies and introducing new energy vehicles. Identifying the parking trips of new energy vehicles and exploring the spatiotemporal patterns is crucial to actively promoting the optimal layout of temporary stops and the formulation of parking policies in the UGFD project. In this study, we aim to comprehend the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of parking for new energy vehicles both on roads (on-street) and within urban communities (off-street) for promoting the UGFD project. Its specific content includes: (1) proposing a method for identifying valid parking trips for the loading and unloading of goods based on trajectory data of UGFD new energy vehicles; and (2) mapping the identification results of valid parking trips onto communities and roads to analyze the spatiotemporal heterogeneity. Taking Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China as an example, the identification results show that the established valid parking trips identification method can outperform state-of-the-art methods. The <em>accuracy</em>, <em>precision</em>, <em>recall</em>, and <em>F1</em> value were found to be 0.957, 0.908, 0.937, and 0.922, respectively. Further examination of parking patterns indicates a bimodal temporal distribution of delivery demand, with peak activity occurring between 08:00–09:00 and between 14:00–17:00, with a higher delivery demand in the morning. Spatially, delivery demand was aggregated, while the parking time distribution of most delivery activities was normal. Additionally, the parking characteristics of communities and roads conformed to the ‘Rank–size rule’, suggesting that most delivery parking activities were concentrated in a few communities and roads. These findings can also be used in UGFD stop station utilization, travel time, arrival time prediction, and other related fields, all of which can further support relevant management departments in discovering abnormal delivery behaviors and reduce their negative impacts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 103870"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142723161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimal operation strategies for freight transport with electric vehicles considering wireless charging lanes","authors":"Kechen Ouyang,&nbsp;David Z.W. Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103852","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103852","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Unlike traditional recharging at fixed stations, wireless charging lanes equipped on the road network enable electric vehicles (EVs) to recharge while in motion, reducing the time required for EV recharging. Indeed, the availability of wireless charging lanes allows the urban freight transport service operators to consider adjusting EVs routing plan to do EV recharging in transit so that the total operational costs can be further reduced. Envisioning that wireless charging lanes would be practically constructed on the road network, this study aims to investigate how the optimal EV routing plan can be determined in a pickup and delivery problem in the future electrified mobility system. The problem is formulated into a mixed-integer programming model, and we propose a branch-and-price algorithm to solve it. Additionally, a large neighborhood search heuristic is incorporated within the column generation framework to effectively tackle the sub-problems. Computational experiments on test instances highlight the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm and demonstrate the potential of wireless charging lanes to reduce total operational costs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 103852"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142723160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The parallel stack loading problem considering multiple batches of storage plates","authors":"Lebao Wu,&nbsp;Zuhua Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103873","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103873","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper considers a parallel stack loading problem with multiple batches of storage plates, a problem that occurs in the plate logistics of shipbuilding. The objective of this problem is to store batches of plates in a yard simultaneously so that the number of relocations during the retrieval stage is minimal. Instead of choosing the plates’ location in the yard alone, the storage order should also be decided, and the storage priority between plates in a batch should be maintained. Such a problem can be regarded as a variant of the capacitated vehicle routing problem. This paper analyzes the influence of stack number, stack capacity, and batch number on the relocation number; optimal conditions and upper bounds under different parameter ranges are provided. Four mathematical models and an ALNS-based algorithm are designed to solve the small-sized and large-sized instances separately, and the experiments on benchmarks are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed methods. Finally, some management suggestions are provided based on the analysis of the problem and experiment results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 103873"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142723716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unveiling coopetition dynamics between shared mobility and public transport: A game-theoretic approach","authors":"Wentao Huang,&nbsp;Sisi Jian","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103863","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103863","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The liberalization of the transport market and advancements in real-time information technologies have prospered various shared mobility services, such as ridesourcing and carsharing. The emergence of these services complicates the relationships between them and public transport, as they often compete and cooperate simultaneously. This study develops a game-theoretic model to unveil these interactions using a multi-leader single-follower framework. In this framework, operators set their service rates as leaders, while travelers are assigned to services based on a logit model, which influences the profitability of both operators. The public transport operator may also subsidize travelers who use shared mobility service to access first- or last-mile trips, referring to as the bundle services. We reformulate the resulting nonlinear, nonconvex problem into a standard convex bilevel model by using outer linear approximations and applying KKT conditions to replace the lower-level problem. An iterative algorithm is developed to solve the game-theoretical model, complemented by an optimization-based bound tightening technique to enhance solution efficiency and accuracy. Our findings show that smaller operators, limited by budget constraints, are more likely to cooperate in bundle services for longer distances but tend to compete for shorter distances. In contrast, larger operators strategically alternate between competition and cooperation based on market conditions. Furthermore, well-designed subsidies in the bundle services can incentivize cooperation between shared mobility and public transport, benefiting both operators and travelers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 103863"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimal channel structure for vertically differentiated products","authors":"Luyu Chang ,&nbsp;Chuanxu Wang ,&nbsp;Qing Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103860","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103860","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Manufacturer encroachment becomes increasingly more prevalent and incurs channel competition and product competition. This paper investigates an effective encroachment format (i.e., direct selling or agent selling) to ease channel competition, and analyzes how providing vertically differentiated products (i.e., easing product competition) affects the effectiveness of easing channel competition in improving the manufacturer’s profit. Our analysis shows that the double marginalization effect of the direct channel caused by agent selling may produce a positive effect, easing channel competition. On this basis, we find that adopting quality differentiation can generate a synergy (mitigation) effect to strengthen (reduce) the effectiveness (ineffectiveness) of easing channel competition in improving the manufacturer’s profit. In addition, adopting quality differentiation enhances (reduces) the manufacturer’s preference for direct selling (non-encroachment). Further, we explore the strategic interplay between partners. We uncover that encroachment always hurts the retailer, while the retailer can prevent encroachment under quality differentiation strategy (i.e., an anti-encroachment behavior). Furthermore, although anti-encroachment causes strategy conflict between partners, Pareto improvement can achieve consistency. Interestingly, the selfish behavior of the manufacturer or retailer that pursues solely maximizing individual profit leads to an encroachment trap or an anti-encroachment trap, that is, a non-optimal result occurs. Remarkably, although anti-encroachment may be ineffective, can generate an anti-encroachment potential or an anti-encroachment threat to reduce the loss of encroachment. In particular, the manufacturer’s countermeasures (i.e., changing the equilibrium encroachment strategy) may form a deterrence to force the retailer to abandon anti-encroachment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 103860"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mobile home delivery parcel lockers","authors":"Rico Kötschau,&nbsp;Ninja Scherr,&nbsp;Christian Tilk,&nbsp;Jan Fabian Ehmke","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103867","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103867","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The demand for last-mile parcel delivery services is expected to increase. Great efforts are therefore being made to develop new ideas for more efficient last-mile delivery. One of the more recent concepts are Mobile Parcel Lockers (MPL), which can be easily repositioned to meet the actual daily demand for deliveries. In this work, we introduce the Mobile Home Delivery Parcel Locker (MHDPL) problem. Therein, a single vehicle can provide both, MPL service and Attended Home Deliveries (AHD), the current industry standard. Hence, the MHDPL problem integrates two characteristics: the simultaneous delivery of many customers as with MPLs, and the delivery of particularly remote customers in a short time as with AHDs. We present a mathematical formulation and propose an Iterated Local Search (ILS) as a solution approach. Since our ILS works on a time-space network, we introduce new problem and network-specific operators. The performance of the ILS is evaluated and the efficiency of the new service is analyzed in terms of various instance and customer characteristics, comparing it to dedicated MPL and AHD services. Our computational analysis reveals that the combination of services has economic potential and satisfies customer preferences more effectively. According to our study, an average MHDPL vehicle can serve 21% more customers than a comparable AHD vehicle.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 103867"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fleet sizing and pricing for hybrid ownership of shared autonomous vehicles in a multimodal transportation system","authors":"Qing Li ,&nbsp;Feixiong Liao ,&nbsp;Wei Xu ,&nbsp;Hai-Jun Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103871","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103871","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Shared privately-owned autonomous vehicles (SPAVs) are expected to be a primary alternative to existing car-sharing and on-demand mobility services when fully automated vehicles are soon to be privatized. In this paradigm, PAV owners make decisions on whether/when/where/for how long to share their PAVs, which would make a dynamic fleet of SPAVs. To improve the effectiveness of such a mobility system, a certain fleet of shared business-owned autonomous vehicles (SBAVs) may also be required. This study proposes a bi-level programming model considering the hybrid ownership of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs). The upper level optimizes the fleet size of SBAVs and rental price of SAVs involving an endogenous fleet of SPAVs, and the lower level involves an SAV self-relocation strategy and attends to travelers’ daily activity-travel scheduling behaviors. A memetic algorithm involving iterative adjustments of the supply and demand sides is developed for the bi-level model. Results from numerical examples indicate that SBAVs provided by the operator complement SPAVs to serve the mobility demand to improve system performance, while PAVs owners adapt sharing behaviors and daily schedules to reduce activity-travel disutilities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 103871"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supplier and platform led games of supplier encroachment","authors":"Yanli Tang ,&nbsp;Suresh P. Sethi ,&nbsp;Yulan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103854","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103854","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When adopting a dual-channel strategy, a supplier who initially provides the goods for an e-commerce platform’s reselling scheme typically has two direct-sale options: (i) <em>retail channel encroachment</em> by opening an independent store or (ii) <em>commission channel encroachment</em> through selling on the platform’s online marketplace. The supplier receives all retail revenue in the former but incurs a channel entry cost. In the latter, the supplier pays the platform commission based on the resulting sales revenue, and the platform may share its demand information with the supplier. We consider two quantity leadership structures: supplier-led and platform-led. First, we show that the platform employs a linear quantity decision rule in equilibrium when there is information asymmetry. Second, a quantity-leader platform always shares its information with the supplier via the commission channel, whereas a quantity-follower platform may not have any incentive to do so. Third, regardless of who the quantity leader is, the supplier always encroaches via the commission channel if the retail-channel entry cost is high and encroaches via the retail channel if that cost is low. Quantity leadership significantly impacts the supplier’s encroachment channel selection only when the retail-channel entry cost is moderate. In this situation, a quantity-leader supplier prefers retail (commission) encroachment, whereas a quantity-follower supplier prefers commission (retail) encroachment when the commission rate is low (high). Last, we consider an extended model that focuses on the simultaneous quantity competition game, and our results characterize the conditions where the supplier is less likely to choose the commission channel in a simultaneous game than in a sequential game.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 103854"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Data-driven resilience analysis of the global container shipping network against two cascading failures","authors":"Yuhao Cao ,&nbsp;Xuri Xin ,&nbsp;Pisit Jarumaneeroj ,&nbsp;Huanhuan Li ,&nbsp;Yinwei Feng ,&nbsp;Jin Wang ,&nbsp;Xinjian Wang ,&nbsp;Robyn Pyne ,&nbsp;Zaili Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103857","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103857","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Being a fundamental link in the global supply chain and logistics system, the global container shipping network (GCSN) is highly interconnected, which causes the network resilience challenges by the cascading failures triggered by extreme events (e.g., COVID-19 and regional conflicts). Within this dynamic process, the load redistribution behaviour is the core countermeasure for the propagation of cascading failures, however the diversified mechanism has not been systematically studied. To fill in these gaps, this study aims to develop a pioneering resilience analysis framework against cascading failures, to comprehensively explore the impact of port disruptions on the shipping network resilience. By pioneering the influence analysis of port betweenness, weight, and connectivity on load determination and target selection, a port importance assessment method is applied as the foundation for load redistribution decisions. Based on the global service routes data from 2020 to 2023, the GCSN resilience against the sequential cascading failures of 686 ports worldwide is quantified by three metrics. A scenario analysis is conducted to simulate the effects of cascading failures triggered by 5 historical port disruption events (e.g., the COVID-19 port lockdowns and the 2024 bridge collision at Baltimore port) on resilience of the network. Determining the identified critical capacity threshold is pivotal for effectively enhancing the system’s resilience and preventing the likelihood of cascading failures. Additionally, this study offers cutting-edge perspectives to the global shipping industry stakeholders. It presents distinct strategies and preferences, offering actionable advice for port authorities in their risk response decisions. Moreover, this study delivers an economic rationale and critical evaluations, instrumental for the strategic maintenance, planning and augmentation of port infrastructures to prevent unforeseen risks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 103857"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards advanced decision-making support for shipping safety: A functional connectivity analysis","authors":"Shiqi Fan ,&nbsp;Stephen Fairclough ,&nbsp;Abdul Khalique ,&nbsp;Alan Bury ,&nbsp;Zaili Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103861","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2024.103861","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Decision making (DM) is essential and proven to be a natural and inherent part of the success of transport systems, particularly given the fast growth of autonomous systems in transport. It is critical but remains challenging to understand and predict DM performance in transport, because operators’ mental states have not been effectively considered in complex DM processes such as ship anti-collision operations. This paper proposes an advanced decision support methodology that pioneers the incorporation of objective neurophysiological and subjective data to analyse functional connectivity in the brain and predict DM performance in ship navigation. Experiments were conducted using a functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) technology to explore the functional connectivity of two groups (low workload and high workload) and predict their DM performance in a ship collision avoidance situation. It brings brain science into transport engineering and the results generate new contributions to the existing knowledge, including (1) the establishment of a methodology to detect different workload levels in safety–critical transport systems using psychophysiological measurement; (2) analysis of brain’s functional connectivity of different groups of decision makers (e.g., seafarers) with high and low workload tasks; (3) an advanced methodology to assess human reliability in complex scenarios and predict operational behaviours; (4) pioneering a human-centred approach to predict DM performance and demonstrate its feasibility in shipping. From a practical perspective, stakeholders can utilise the findings of this study to rationally evaluate human performance in transport system operations, aiding in operator qualification and certification processes. Furthermore, it is critical for adaptive automation regarding DM support in safety–critical systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 103861"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142662097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}