IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/transj/v57y2018i4p399-428.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Parcel Delivery by Collaborative Use of Truck Fleets and Bus‐Transit Vehicles

Author

Listed:
  • Yunzhu He
  • Zhongzhen Yang

Abstract

City express delivery demand is characterized by large quantities, small parcel sizes, dense batch frequency, and timeliness. To meet demand and control costs and CO2 emissions from parcel delivery, a collaborative delivery mode using bus vehicles and a truck fleet is proposed. A model is built to optimize delivery schemes based on a bus–road mixed network and thus minimize the fixed cost, the delivery cost, the compensation cost for the emitted CO2, and the unpunctuality penalty cost. An ant‐colony algorithm is designed to solve the model. Delivery schemes for the 97 demand sites in a Chinese city are calculated under collaborative mode and truck‐only mode. The advantages of a collaborative mode are verified by comparing the two types of delivery schemes.

Suggested Citation

  • Yunzhu He & Zhongzhen Yang, 2018. "Parcel Delivery by Collaborative Use of Truck Fleets and Bus‐Transit Vehicles," Transportation Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 57(4), pages 399-428, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:transj:v:57:y:2018:i:4:p:399-428
    DOI: 10.5325/transportationj.57.4.0399
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.57.4.0399
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.5325/transportationj.57.4.0399?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:transj:v:57:y:2018:i:4:p:399-428. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.