Chapter 3
The Impact of Collaborative Scheduling
and Routing for Interconnected Logistics:
A European Case Study
Sh. Sharif Azadeh, Y. Maknoon, J. H. Chen, and M. Bierlaire
Abstract Interconnected logistics system can play an important role towards having a more sustainable green freight transport. Recently, after introducing the
concept of Physical Internet (PI), researchers have started to explore the opportunities and challenges that a collaborative and interconnected network could create in
different aspects of the supply chain. In this research, we study the last mile delivery
as well as vehicle dispatching problems under the assumptions of collaborative
supply chain networks while assuming that modularized boxes are applied inside
the network from the provider to the final customer. Our research aims at proposing a
more efficient resource planning with the minimal number of empty vehicle movements running on roads that ultimately leads to decrease carbon dioxide emission.
The assumptions have been tested and verified using real data coming from a major
retail company in Europe.
Keywords Collaborative scheduling · Routing · Interconnected logistics · Physical
Internet · Last mile delivery · Vehicle dispatching
Sh. Sharif Azadeh (*)
Earsmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: sharifazadeh@ese.eur.nl
Y. Maknoon
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
e-mail: m.y.maknoon@tudelft.nl
J. H. Chen
Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
e-mail: jianghang.chen@sjtu.edu.cn
M. Bierlaire
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
e-mail: michel.bierlaire@epfl.ch
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
J. Rezaei (ed.), Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial
Networks, Greening of Industry Networks Studies 8,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55385-2_3
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The Impact of Collaborative Scheduling
and Routing for Interconnected Logistics:
A European Case Study
Sh. Sharif Azadeh, Y. Maknoon, J. H. Chen, and M. Bierlaire
Abstract Interconnected logistics system can play an important role towards having a more sustainable green freight transport. Recently, after introducing the
concept of Physical Internet (PI), researchers have started to explore the opportunities and challenges that a collaborative and interconnected network could create in
different aspects of the supply chain. In this research, we study the last mile delivery
as well as vehicle dispatching problems under the assumptions of collaborative
supply chain networks while assuming that modularized boxes are applied inside
the network from the provider to the final customer. Our research aims at proposing a
more efficient resource planning with the minimal number of empty vehicle movements running on roads that ultimately leads to decrease carbon dioxide emission.
The assumptions have been tested and verified using real data coming from a major
retail company in Europe.
Keywords Collaborative scheduling · Routing · Interconnected logistics · Physical
Internet · Last mile delivery · Vehicle dispatching
Sh. Sharif Azadeh (*)
Earsmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: sharifazadeh@ese.eur.nl
Y. Maknoon
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
e-mail: m.y.maknoon@tudelft.nl
J. H. Chen
Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
e-mail: jianghang.chen@sjtu.edu.cn
M. Bierlaire
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
e-mail: michel.bierlaire@epfl.ch
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
J. Rezaei (ed.), Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial
Networks, Greening of Industry Networks Studies 8,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55385-2_3
35