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Title Crowdsource-enabled integrated production and transportation scheduling for smart city logistics
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Authors Feng, X; Chu, F; Chu, CB; Huang, YF
Title Crowdsource-enabled integrated production and transportation scheduling for smart city logistics
Year 2021
Published International Journal Of Production Research, 59, 7
DOI 10.1080/00207543.2020.1808258
Abstract With city logistics becoming more and more important, increasing attention has been paid to the 'last-mile delivery' in urban areas. We investigate a novel crowdsource-enabled integrated production and transportation scheduling problem in the paper. The problem is first formulated into a mixed-integer linear program and its strong NP-hardness is proved. To better understand this complex problem, two sub-problems: a production and transportation scheduling problem and a crowdsourced bid selection problem are analysed. Based on problem properties, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) and a lower bound (LB) are developed to solve the original problem. Experimental results with up to 100 customers show that the GA outperforms the well-known commercial MIP solver CPLEX. Especially, (1) the GA can yield near-optimal solutions for all the tested instances with an average gap of 10.17% from the lower bound, while CPLEX provides feasible solutions only for instances with no more than 30 customers; (2) the average computation time of the GA is only 0.93% of that required by CPLEX; Besides, sensitivity analysis demonstrates advantages of introducing crowdsourced delivery into city logistics.
Author Keywords Crowdsourced delivery; last-mile delivery; job scheduling; city logistics; genetic algorithm
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000565028000001
WoS Category Engineering, Industrial; Engineering, Manufacturing; Operations Research & Management Science
Research Area Engineering; Operations Research & Management Science
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