optimization

A Truck Routing Model to Reduce Fuel Consumption and Emissions while Accounting for Parking Availability and Working Hours Constraints

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Researchers at the University of Southern California developed a truck routing model that minimizes fuel consumption and reduces emissions while explicitly accounting for parking availability and hours-of-service constraints. The researchers used the model to test various scenarios that reflect the practical constraints faced by drivers.

Applying topological data analysis to local search problems

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This paper presents an application of topological data analysis (TDA) to discrete optimization problems. This application can improve the performance of the 2-opt local search method for the traveling salesman problem by simply applying standard Vietoris-Rips construction to a data set of trials.

Incentive Systems for Fleets of New Mobility Services

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This paper studies the problem of offering incentives to organizations to change the behavior of their individual drivers (or individuals relying on the organization’s services).

Optimizing Fuel Consumption and Pollutant Emissions in Truck Routing with Parking Availability Prediction and Working Hours Constraints

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Research Report
The transportation sector is responsible for a significant part of the U.S.’s greenhouse emissions, with a considerable amount being generated by medium-and heavy-duty trucks. However, when it comes to the trucking industry, ‘green’ routing studies do not consider other critical practical factors, like working hours regulations and parking availability. This study addresses a variant of the shortest path and truck driver scheduling problem under parking availability constraints which focuses on optimizing fuel consumption and emissions by controlling the truck's travel speed and accounting for time-dependent traffic conditions.