Print Email Facebook Twitter Integrated Mode Choice and Vehicle Routing for Container Transport Title Integrated Mode Choice and Vehicle Routing for Container Transport Author Larsen, R.B. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics) Sprokkereef, Jasper M. (Student TU Delft) Atasoy, B. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics) Negenborn, R.R. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics) Date 2021 Abstract It is desirable to improve the efficiency of container transport both from an economical and an environmental point of view, as increased efficiency decreases costs and emissions per transported container. Modern transport schemes, such as synchromodal transport, use a-modal bookings to increase the flexibility of the transport providers where the mode choice can be postponed until all demand for a planning period is known. We show in this paper the impact of planning the routes of containers, and thus the mode choice, together with truck routing. The developed integrated container and truck routing model is compared to a two-stage model that represents current practice, where the route of the containers are decided upon assuming an unlimited amount of trucks are always available. The two models are compared on several simulated, hinterland scenarios. In all scenarios, integrated routing performs at least as well as the two-stage model in terms of cost and the benefits of integration are more evident when there is a limited amount of trucks available. Integration of the routing increases the utilization rate of trucks and, often, a smaller truck fleet is needed. The presented model, therefore, demonstrates a proof-of-concept with promising improvements towards efficiency and environmental sustainability. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e37d18ae-35f6-4479-b840-52f71db5410c DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC48978.2021.9564988 Publisher IEEE Embargo date 2022-04-25 ISBN 978-1-7281-9143-0 Source Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) Event ITSC 2021, 2021-09-19 → 2021-09-22, Virtual at Indianapolis, United States Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2021 R.B. Larsen, Jasper M. Sprokkereef, B. Atasoy, R.R. Negenborn Files PDF Integrated_Mode_Choice_an ... nsport.pdf 454.44 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e37d18ae-35f6-4479-b840-52f71db5410c/datastream/OBJ/view