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International audience; Because it deals with sustainably supplying cities and reducing congestion and pollution related to goods transport in urban areas, city logistics is an important field in transportation sciences. These logistics systems need to be sustainable and reliable [...]

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20% of Europe's GHG emissions come from road transportation. Freight transport energy consumption, and thus emission levels, is tightly coupled to GDP. So if Europe seeks to dramatically reduce emissions without sacrificing wealth, it is crucial to address the issue of energy efficiency [...]

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Until the end of the 20th century it was common that cities organized, financed, and managed their own public transportation systems. More recently (in Italy mainly during the last decade), many countries liberalized the service provision of public transportation. Although offering [...]

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Assigning and scheduling vehicle routes in a stochastic time-dependent environment is a crucial management problem. The assumption that in a real-life environment everything goes according to an a priori determined static schedule is unrealistic. Our methodology builds on earlier [...]

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Resumen: Este trabajo se enfoca en dar solución a un problema real de planificación de transportes o ruteo de vehículos, definido gracias al aporte de una empresa colombiana del sector de servicios de transporte por carretera. El problema consiste en realizar la programación de [...]

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eer-reviewed Increasing amounts of time is wasted due to traffic congestion in both developed and developing countries. This has severe negative effects, including drivers stress due to increased time pressure, reduced usage efficiency of trucks and other commercial vehicles, and [...]