Combined passenger and parcel transportation using a mixed fleet of electric and gasoline vehicles

Chung Cheng Lu, Ali Diabat, Yi Ting Li, Yu Min Yang

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Abstract

This study deals with a variant of the vehicle routing problem that aims to design the optimal routes for a mixed fleet of taxis that simultaneously services a given set of passenger and parcel requests. The fleet is composed of electric vehicles and gasoline vehicles. The problem is called combined passenger and parcel transportation problem with a mixed fleet (CPPT-MF). We construct a time-expanded network which is used to model the movements of passengers, parcels and vehicles in space and time. A mixed-integer linear programming model of the problem is developed on the basis of the time-expanded network. A network partitioning-based math-heuristic is proposed to efficiently solve large-scale instances of the problem. The model and the heuristic are evaluated using a set of real-world instances from a taxi company and a set of randomly generated instances. The computational results show that the proposed approach is effective and efficient for solving the CPPT-MF and could facilitate taxi companies with heterogeneous fleets for deciding the routes to simultaneously service passenger and parcel requests.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number102546
JournalTransportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Volume157
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2022

Keywords

  • Combined passenger and parcel transportation
  • Electric taxis
  • Mixed integer linear program
  • Ride-sharing
  • Time-expanded network

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Business and International Management
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Transportation

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