Design of a Decision-making Business Process for Transport Method Selection of Shell Chemicals: A Process Balancing Decarbonization, Cost and On-time Delivery Key Performance Indicators in Transporting Chemicals to the European Customers

This thesis project investigates the applicability of different sustainable transport methods for delivering chemical products to the European customers and a decision-making business process is derived from that. So, a set of representative lanes are selected to be involved in this project and the hauliers responsible for those lanes are asked...

Logistics and Costs of Agricultural Residues for Cellulosic Ethanol Production

There is global pressure to make advanced biofuels profitable. For cellulosic ethanol, three aspects remain as bottlenecks: collection of feedstocks, pretreatment methods, and enzyme production. In this paper, the first aspect is investigated, by addressing the main challenges for the logistics of agricultural residues. A logistic supply...

Optimization of the dimensions of dry bulk ships: The case of the river Rhine

A Solution Method for Vehicle Routing Problems with Time-Dependent Travel Times

The goal of this thesis is developing an efficient method that produces good quality solutions to real-life Vehicle Routing Problems with time-dependent travel times. The Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem (TDVRP) is one of the most challenging combinatorial optimisation problems and belongs to the category of NP-hard problems. Therefore,...