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Optimizing the Composite Cost Involved in Road Motor-Transporting Trucks by Taking into Account Traffic Condition

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  • Hongying Fei
  • Chengyi Zhang

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With the rapid development of modern automotive logistics industry, vehicle logistics has drawn more and more attention. Since the vehicle transporters mainly are the severe-polluting heavy-duty vehicles and their exhaust emissions vary under different traffic conditions, it is necessary to improve the planning of road motor-transporting services by taking into account road traffic condition, especially for urban areas. This study aims at minimizing the composite cost, including both the economic cost related to the driver cost and fuel consumption, and the social cost related to the vehicle emissions. The dynamic road traffic condition is imitated dynamically with a discretization technique. A metaheuristic is applied with data collected from a dense district in a huge city. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can always converge quickly to the best solution and the solution with minimal composite cost can always dominate the other solutions with classic route optimization goals.

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  • Hongying Fei & Chengyi Zhang, 2018. "Optimizing the Composite Cost Involved in Road Motor-Transporting Trucks by Taking into Account Traffic Condition," Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Hindawi, vol. 2018, pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnddns:8703852
    DOI: 10.1155/2018/8703852
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