Solving Large-Scale Dynamic Collaborative Vehicle Routing Problems: An Auction-Based Multi-Agent Approach

The freight transportation sector is one of the major contributors to air pollution. An important way to reduce emissions consists of collective route planning. Although unloaded trips and inefficient routes could not always be prevented by individual carriers, more efficient operations could often be obtained if multiple carriers collaborate by...

Collaborative Vehicle Routing when Agents have Mixed Information Sharing Attitudes

The transportation market requires collaboration to improve efficiency and reduce emissions. Individual carriers, however, might be hesitant to share their private information on a transportation platform. Although a few articles have investigated the value of information sharing, they assume identical behaviour of all carriers. In practice,...

Decentralized Combinatorial Auctions for Dynamic and Large-Scale Collaborative Vehicle Routing

While collaborative vehicle routing has a significant potential to reduce transportation costs and emissions, current approaches are limited in terms of applicability, unrealistic assumptions, and low scalability. Centralized planning generally assumes full information and full control, which is often unacceptable for individual carriers....