Green Transportation and New Advances in Vehicle Routing Problems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. New Advances in Vehicle Routing Problems: A Literature Review to Explore the Future

   • Mohammad Asghari, S. Mohammad J. MirzapourAl-e-hashem

   Pages 1-42

3. A Robust Optimization for a Home Healthcare Routing and Scheduling Problem Considering Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Stochastic Travel and Service Times

   • Amir Mohammad Fathollahi-Fard, Abbas Ahmadi, Behrooz Karimi

   Pages 43-73

4. A Skewed General Variable Neighborhood Search Approach for Solving the Battery Swap Station Location-Routing Problem with Capacitated Electric Vehicles

   • Mannoubia Affi, Houda Derbel, Bassem Jarboui, Patrick Siarry

   Pages 75-89

5. The Cumulative Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem Including Priority Indexes

   • Karina Corona-Gutiérrez, Maria-Luisa Cruz, Samuel Nucamendi-Guillén, Elias Olivares-Benitez

   Pages 91-129

6. Solution of a Real-Life Vehicle Routing Problem with Meal Breaks and Shifts

   • Çiğdem Karademir, Ümit Bilge, Necati Aras, Gökay Burak Akkuş, Göksu Öznergiz, Onur Doğan

   Pages 131-157

7. A Decomposition-Based Heuristic for a Waste Cooking Oil Collection Problem

   • Ceren Gultekin, Omer Berk Olmez, Burcu Balcik, Ali Ekici, Okan Orsan Ozener

   Pages 159-176

8. Time-Dependent Green Vehicle Routing Problem

   • Golnush Masghati-Amoli, Ali Haghani

   Pages 177-211

9. Recent Developments in Real Life Vehicle Routing Problem Applications

   • Lina Simeonova, Niaz Wassan, Naveed Wassan, Said Salhi

   Pages 213-228

This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green transportation. The contributed chapters consider environmental objectives in transportation, including topics such as battery swap stations for electric vehicles, efficient home healthcare routing, waste collection, and various vehicle routing problems. 

The content will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students in computer science, operations research, and urban planning.

• Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)
• Green Logistics
• Healthcare
• Distribution Routing
• Green Transportation
• Last Mile Logistics

• Department of Quantitative Methods and CS, University of Carthage, Nabeul, Tunisia

  Houda Derbel

• Department of Business, Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  Bassem Jarboui

• Laboratoire LiSSi (EA 3956), Université Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France

  Patrick Siarry

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