Urban consolidation centers and city toll schemes–Investigating the impact of city tolls on transshipment decisions

Around the world, many cities are struggling with the negative effects of urban freight transport, such as congestion and emissions. To mitigate these negative effects, both innovative solutions, such as urban consolidation centers, and regulations, such as city toll schemes and delivery time windows, can be adopted. In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of city toll regulations on the vehicle routing and transshipment decisions of logistics service providers. They present a mixed-integer linear programming formulation and an adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic that address the interdependent decisions of vehicle routing and the use of urban consolidation centers, taking into account city toll schemes and time window constraints. In this context, they consider heterogeneous fleets, multiple trips per vehicle, and use a multigraph to address the trade-off between fastest and cheapest paths. The authors validate the adaptive large neighborhood search by comparing it with the mixed-integer linear programming model on test instances with up to 20 customers. To analyze how city toll schemes affect the cost attractiveness of urban consolidation centers and the fleet composition of logistics service providers, they conduct an extensive computational study featuring real-world instances that provide managerial insights for both local administrations and logistics service providers. Their results show that both per-day and per-entrance tolls can be used by local administrations to support the use of urban consolidation centers and that the number of truck entries into urban areas can be reduced. However, their results also indicate that due to the transshipment fee per unit load, the cost attractiveness of using urban consolidation centers is considerably lower for logistics service providers with larger delivery quantities per stop.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2022.102782
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1366554522001703
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  • © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Friedrich, Christian
  • 0000-0002-4640-7717
  • Elbert, Ralf
• Publication Date: 2022-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 102782
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
  • Volume: 164
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1366-5545
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13665545

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fleet management; Freight traffic; Logistics; Routing; Tolls; Urban goods movement
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01855692
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 24 2022 3:02PM