Vehicle Routing Problem for Emissions Minimization
Sponsor
The author acknowledges the Oregon Transportation, Research and Education Consortium and the Portland State University Research Administration for sponsoring this research.
Published In
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Subjects
Vehicle routing problem, Motor vehicle emissions, Traffic congestion, Greenhouse gases
Abstract
Environmental, social, and political pressures to limit the effects associated with greenhouse gas emissions are mounting. Little research has been done on reducing emissions as the primary objective of a routing problem despite the growth in use and impact of commercial vehicles. In the capacitated vehicle routing problem (VRP) with time windows, it is traditionally assumed that carriers minimize the number of vehicles as a primary objective and distance traveled as a secondary objective without violating time windows, route durations, or capacity constraints. New research focuses on a different problem: the minimization of emissions and fuel consumption as the primary or secondary objective. This creates the emissions VRP (EVRP). A formulation and solution approaches for the EVRP are presented. Decision variables and properties are stated and discussed. Results obtained with a proposed EVRP solution approach for different levels of congestion are compared and analyzed.
DOI
10.3141/2197-01
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20826
Citation Details
Figliozzi, Miguel, "Vehicle Routing Problem for Emissions Minimization" (2010). Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations. 275.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20826
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