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    Freight Operations Modelling for Urban Delivery and Pickup with Flexible Routing: Cluster Transport Modelling Incorporating Discrete-Event Simulation and GIS (2021)

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    https://hdl.handle.net/10092/103558
    
    Publisher's DOI/URI
    http://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures6120180
    
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    MDPI AG
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    2412-3811
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    Authors
    Lyu Z
    Ji Z
    Pons, Dirk cc
    zhang, yilei cc
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    Abstract

    Urban pickup and delivery (PUD) activities are important for logistics operations. Real operations for general freight involve a high degree of complexity due to daily variability. Discrete-event simulation (DES) is a method that can mimic real operations and include stochastic parameters. However, realistic vehicle routing is difficult to build in DES models. The objective is to create a DES model for realistic freight routing, which considers the driver’s routing decisions. Realistic models need to predict the delivery route (including time and distance) for variable consignment address and backhaul pickup. Geographic information systems (GIS) and DES were combined to develop freight PUD models. GIS was used to process geographical data. Two DES models were developed and compared. The first was a simple suburb model, and the second an intersection-based model. Real industrial data were applied including one-year consignment data and global positioning system (GPS) data. A case study of one delivery tour is shown, with results validated with actual GPS data. The DES results were also compared with conventional GIS models. The result shows the intersection-based model is adequate to mimic actual PUD routing. This work provides a method for combining GIS and DES to build freight operation models for urban PUD. This has the potential to help industry logistics practitioners better understand their current operations and experiment with different scenarios.

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    Lyu Z, Pons D, Zhang Y, Ji Z (2021). Freight Operations Modelling for Urban Delivery and Pickup with Flexible Routing: Cluster Transport Modelling Incorporating Discrete-Event Simulation and GIS. Infrastructures. 6(12). 180-180.
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    Keywords
    freight delivery with backhaul pickup; discrete-event simulation; geographic information system; dynamic routing
    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3509 - Transportation, logistics and supply chains::350903 - Logistics
    35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3509 - Transportation, logistics and supply chains::350908 - Road transportation and freight services
    35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3509 - Transportation, logistics and supply chains::350902 - Intelligent mobility
    40 - Engineering::4013 - Geomatic engineering::401302 - Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651

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