Promotion and Optimization toward Sustainable Urban Logistics Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The logistics resource configuration provides a better understanding of intelligent logistics, multimodal transport, resource-sharing modes, coordinated configuration of logistics resources, etc. This interest is supported by recent new advances of emerging information technologies, such as the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, and blockchain, which bring opportunities for logistics enterprises to overcome obstacles to collaboration. In addition, collaboration among logistics enterprises is a promising approach to increase enterprise operational efficiency by sharing the limited logistics resources under different situations and promotes the sustainable development of urban logistics systems in the long term. Several issues have been raised on the use of traditional models and algorithms, such as the new model establishment and solution algorithm issues of the logistics transport system, warehousing, and the validation of collaborative schemes.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Logistics schemes and performance evaluation;
• Resource-sharing modes and strategies;
• Collaborative mechanisms (i.e., how to facilitate collaboration among transport entities) in logistics network operations;
• Collaborative logistics system ;
• Sustainable logistics network modeling;
• Application of intelligent algorithms for solving logistics network modeling;
• Multiperiod resource configuration in the time–space logistics network;
• Vehicle routing and scheduling with dynamic customer demands;
• Application of emerging technologies in logistics network.

Prof. Dr. Yong Wang
Prof. Dr. Muqing Du
Prof. Dr. Hui Zhang
Guest Editors

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