Scaling up dynamic charging infrastructure: Significant battery cost savings

Large-scale electrification of heavy-duty road freight faces challenges including scarcity of charging infrastructure and high battery costs. Dynamic charging could help overcome these challenges by enabling trucks to charge while driving. Important additional benefits for carriers related to lower required sizes and longer lifetimes of...

A One-Way Car-Sharing Based Approach for Combined Shared Mobility of Freight and Passengers

Climate change stresses the need for research and development of innovative sustainable mobility solutions that provide reliable and convenient door-to-door services for both passengers and freight. The increase in urban population and the popularity of e-commerce further highlights the need for action. In this regard, crowd-shipping is often...

Lead-time-based freight routing in multi-modal networks considering the Physical Internet

This paper addresses the problem of optimizing the transport of goods in the Physical Internet (PI) framework in a multi-modal setting using a multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) approach. The model is specifically designed to meet the requirements related to modular shipments and PI-hubs, and in particular, determines the...

Special Issue on Hyperconnectivity in the Physical Internet

This special issue of the Journal of Supply Chain Management Science (JSCMS) presents four papers that were discussed at the 9th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC) in 2023. The vision of Physical Internet (PI) has gone through a strong maturing process since its conception (Montreuil, 2011), both in terms of its practical...