Personnel scheduling plays a pivotal role in numerous industries, impacting productivity, job satisfaction, and employee welfare. However, conventional scheduling approaches often neglect ergonomic and sustainability considerations, overlooking their...
The optimization of bus scheduling is a key method to improve bus service. So, the purpose of this paper is to address the regional public transportation dispatching problem, while taking into account the association between the departure time of bus...
Ship–infrastructure cooperation, i.e., infrastructure scheduling, is significant for optimizing the utilization of spatial-temporal resources of infrastructures and improving the efficiency and safety of waterborne transportation systems. This...
This paper investigates a two-machine group scheduling problem with sequence-independent setup times and round-trip transportation times, which is derived from the production management requirements of modern steel manufacturing enterprises. The obje...
In recent years, interest in drone-based logistics has grown due to the increasing demand for efficient and sustainable package transportation, driven by the expansion of e-commerce and rising environmental awareness. In this study, we focus on fligh...
We consider the coordination of transportation and batching scheduling with one single vehicle for minimizing total weighted completion time. The computational complexity of the problem with batch capacity of at least 2 was posed as open in the liter...
Autonomous electric vehicle (AEV) services leverage advanced autonomous driving and electric vehicle technologies to provide innovative, driverless transportation solutions. The biggest challenge faced by AEVs is the limited number of charging statio...
This paper proposes a novel parcel delivery system which consists of a drone and public transportation vehicles such as trains, trams, etc. This system involves two delivery schemes: drone-direct scheme referring to delivering to a customer by a dron...
In a flexible job shop problem with transportation (FJSPT), a typical flexible manufacturing system comprises transporters that pick up and deliver jobs for processing at flexible job shops. This problem has grown in importance through the wide use o...
In many flexible job shop scheduling problems, transportation scheduling problems are involved, increasing the difficulty in problem-solving. Here, a novel artificial Physarum polycephalum colony algorithm is proposed to help us address this problem....
Nowadays, the manufacturing industry faces the challenge of reducing energy consumption and the associated environmental impacts. Production scheduling is an effective approach for energy-savings management. During the entire workshop production proc...
Inland shipping in the Yangtze River in China has become very prosperous, making feeder scheduling and container transportation increasingly difficult for feeder operators. This research analyzed the decision-making of container transportation busine...
Maritime transportation plays a pivotal role in the global merchandise trade. To improve maritime safety and protect the environment, every state must effectively control ships flying its flag, which is called flag state control (FSC). However, the e...
This paper addresses the flexible job-shop scheduling problem with multiple time factors—namely, transportation time and setup time—as well as job priorities (referred to as FJSP-JPC-TST). An optimization model is established with the obj...
The production and rail transportation coordinating problem aims to determine a pre-operational timetable for a set of orders. The orders need to be manufactured on a dedicated production line and be delivered to their destination by the pre-planned...
With the advancement of logistics technology, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) have been widely adopted in manufacturing enterprises due to their high flexibility and stability, particularly in flexible and discrete manufacturing domains such as tire...
This study addresses the challenges of long traversal paths, low efficiency, high fuel consumption, and costs in the collaborative harvesting of corn by harvesters and grain transport vehicles in hilly areas. A path-planning and collaborative schedul...
With increasingly stringent carbon policies, the development of traditional heavy industries with high carbon emissions has been greatly restricted. Manufacturing companies surveyed use multifunctional machining machines and variable speed cranes, as...
This study focuses on the ‘short-inverted transportation’ scenario of intermodal transport. It proposes a vehicle unloading reservation mechanism to optimize the point-of-demand scheduling system for the inefficiency of transport due to t...
In this paper, we describe a comparative analysis of a bus route scheduling problem as part of timetable trips. We consider the current uptake of electric buses as a viable public transportation option that will eventually phase out the diesel-engine...
Efficient scheduling of automated rail transportation in hilly orchards is critical for maintaining fruit freshness and ensuring timely market delivery. This study develops a dynamic scheduling method for multi-transporter orchard rail systems throug...
Against the backdrop of developing metro-based passenger and freight co-transportation plans, this study addresses the integrated optimization problem of train scheduling and flow control for a co-transportation metro line, where passengers and freig...
The current literature mainly uses hub capacity or transport route selection to manage the congestion of emergency multimodal transport and pays less attention to transshipment scheduling. This paper proposes an integrated optimization problem of tra...
Scheduled timetable information has been used extensively in studies concerned with estimating travel times in accessibility research. Fewer studies to date have involved the use of real-time public transport data to help investigate the impacts of t...
The essential characteristics that distinguish homecare services from other routing and scheduling problems are relatively few patients being spread out over a large urban area, long transport times and several different services being provided. The...
In the shipping network optimization, the feeder liner companies not only need to decrease the operation cost by comprehensively optimizing the route, schedule, and fleet but also try to increase the operation income by attracting more shippers, with...
The development of transport infrastructure is crucial for economic growth, social connectivity, and sustainable development. Many countries have historically underinvested in transport infrastructure, necessitating more efficient strategic planning...
Inland waterway transport is considered a critical component of sustainable maritime transportation and is subject to strict legal regulations on fuel quality. However, crew members often prefer cheaper, inferior fuels for economic reasons, making go...
To address the scheduling challenges associated with the increasing deployment of battery-swapping trucks in open-pit mines, this study proposes a multi-objective scheduling optimization model. This model accounts for the unique characteristics of ba...
The real-life assembly production often has transportation between fabrication and assembly, and the capacity of transportation machine is often considered; however, the previous works are mainly about two-stage distributed assembly scheduling proble...
With the increasing penetration of electric vehicles (EVs), the spatial–temporal coupling between the transportation network (TN) and the power distribution network (PDN) has intensified greatly. Large-scale uncoordinated charging of EVs signif...
Container intermodal scheduling is critical for advancing low-carbon logistics within inland port systems. However, the scheduling process faces several challenges, including the complexity of coordinating transport modes and complying with carbon em...
This case study tackles a real-world problem of a transportation company that is modeled as a scheduling optimization problem. The main goal of the considered problem is to schedule the maximum number of jobs that must be performed by vehicles over a...
Well-organized network configuration is the key to the success of inland container transportation systems. In this study, we firstly propose an integrated framework for the location selection of inland container depots (ICDs) and the scheduling of co...
Cutting operational costs is a critical component for transportation agencies. To reduce these costs, agencies must optimize their scheduling. Typically, the total operating costs of transport include vehicle expenses and driver wages. Solving such t...
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Carbon emission constraints and trading policies in e-commerce environments have brought huge challenges to the operation of supply chain enterprises. In order to ensure the good operation of the e-commerce supply chain in a low-carbon environment, a...
This paper is intended to improve the performance of signalized intersections, one of the most important systems of traffic control explained within the scope of smart transportation systems. These structures, which have the main role in ensuring the...
With the increasing popularity of prefabricated buildings, more and more precast plants have been equipped with multiple production lines to increase productivity and meet the growing market demand. Sharing equipment, human, and transportation resour...
Transportation planning is a complex process that aims to achieve the maximum level of effectiveness in terms of costs, usage of transport resources, reliability of deliveries, and minimizing the negative impact on the environment. Most traditional m...
This study proposes a multi-objective optimization scheduling method for edible oil transportation in smart manufacturing, focusing on centralized control and addressing challenges such as complex pipelines and shared resource constraints. The method...
The coal loading operation of the coal preparation plant of an open pit coal mine causes chaos in coal mine vehicle scheduling due to the unreasonable arrival times of outgoing and container transportation vehicles. To further reduce the length of ti...
In light of the improvements to the capacity and timeliness of heavy-haul railway transportation that can be organized through group trains originating at a technical station, we address a group train operation scheduling problem with freight demand...
As low-carbon and sustainable manufacturing becomes the mainstream development direction of the current manufacturing industry, the traditional heavy industry manufacturing enterprises in China urgently need to transform. For the heavy cement equipme...
The two-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with removal and transportation times is addressed in this paper. The maximum completion time is the objective function to be minimized. This scheduling problem is modeling real-life situations encoun...
Energy-saving scheduling has been pointed out as an interesting research issue in the manufacturing field, by which energy consumption can be effectively reduced through production scheduling from the operational management perspective. In recent yea...
The energy-saving scheduling problem (ESSP) has gained increasing attention of researchers in the manufacturing field. However, there is a lack of studies on ESSPs in the assembly job shop environment. In contrast with traditional scheduling problems...
Logistics is significantly impacted by quality/quantity issues associated with data collection and data sharing restrictions. Nonetheless, public data from national entities and internet-of-things (IoT) solutions enable the development of integrated...
High-speed rail express is gradually gaining attention due to its low cost and high on-time performance. This paper studied the optimization of high-speed rail express transportation modes considering passenger capacity loss. A spatio-temporal networ...
Although dynamic, energy-efficient container-supply hybrid flow shops have attracted increasing attention, most existing research overlooks how transportation within container production affects makespan, resilience, and sustainability. To bridge thi...
Emergencies such as machine breakdowns and rush orders greatly affect the production activities of manufacturing enterprises. How to deal with the rescheduling problem after emergencies have high practical value. Meanwhile, under the background of in...
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