Bi-Objective Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with a Mixed Fleet of Conventional and Electric Vehicles and Soft Time Windows

With the growing interest in environmental protection and congestion, electric vehicles are increasingly becoming the important transportation means. However, electric vehicles currently face several adoption barriers including high purchasing price and limited travelling range, so the fleets where...

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Main Authors: Peixin Zhao, Fanfan Liu, Yuanyuan Guo, Xiaoyang Duan, Yunshu Zhang
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Transportation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9086229
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Fanfan Liu
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Xiaoyang Duan
Yunshu Zhang
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description With the growing interest in environmental protection and congestion, electric vehicles are increasingly becoming the important transportation means. However, electric vehicles currently face several adoption barriers including high purchasing price and limited travelling range, so the fleets where electric vehicles and conventional vehicles coexist are closer to the current fleet management status. Considering the impact of charging facilities and carbon emission, this paper proposes a vehicle routing problem with a mixed fleet of conventional and electric vehicles and soft time windows. A bi-objective programming model is established to minimize total operational cost and time penalty cost. Finally, the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) is employed to deal with this problem. Furthermore, single-objective optimization is carried out for the two objectives, respectively, and the linear weighting method is also used to solve the problem. Through the contrast of these results and the NSGA-II results, the effectiveness of the algorithm in this paper is further verified. The results indicate that two objectives are contradictory to some extent and decision-makers need a trade-off between two objectives.
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spelling doaj-art-a385da7941ac4460ae7c9027117b0c092025-02-03T01:08:52ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation0197-67292042-31952021-01-01202110.1155/2021/90862299086229Bi-Objective Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with a Mixed Fleet of Conventional and Electric Vehicles and Soft Time WindowsPeixin Zhao0Fanfan Liu1Yuanyuan Guo2Xiaoyang Duan3Yunshu Zhang4School of Management, Shandong University, 27 Shanda Nanlu, Jinan 250100, Shandong Province, ChinaSchool of Management, Shandong University, 27 Shanda Nanlu, Jinan 250100, Shandong Province, ChinaSchool of Management, Shandong University, 27 Shanda Nanlu, Jinan 250100, Shandong Province, ChinaSchool of Management, Shandong University, 27 Shanda Nanlu, Jinan 250100, Shandong Province, ChinaSchool of Management, Shandong University, 27 Shanda Nanlu, Jinan 250100, Shandong Province, ChinaWith the growing interest in environmental protection and congestion, electric vehicles are increasingly becoming the important transportation means. However, electric vehicles currently face several adoption barriers including high purchasing price and limited travelling range, so the fleets where electric vehicles and conventional vehicles coexist are closer to the current fleet management status. Considering the impact of charging facilities and carbon emission, this paper proposes a vehicle routing problem with a mixed fleet of conventional and electric vehicles and soft time windows. A bi-objective programming model is established to minimize total operational cost and time penalty cost. Finally, the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) is employed to deal with this problem. Furthermore, single-objective optimization is carried out for the two objectives, respectively, and the linear weighting method is also used to solve the problem. Through the contrast of these results and the NSGA-II results, the effectiveness of the algorithm in this paper is further verified. The results indicate that two objectives are contradictory to some extent and decision-makers need a trade-off between two objectives.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9086229
spellingShingle Peixin Zhao
Fanfan Liu
Yuanyuan Guo
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Bi-Objective Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with a Mixed Fleet of Conventional and Electric Vehicles and Soft Time Windows
Journal of Advanced Transportation
title Bi-Objective Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with a Mixed Fleet of Conventional and Electric Vehicles and Soft Time Windows
title_full Bi-Objective Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with a Mixed Fleet of Conventional and Electric Vehicles and Soft Time Windows
title_fullStr Bi-Objective Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with a Mixed Fleet of Conventional and Electric Vehicles and Soft Time Windows
title_full_unstemmed Bi-Objective Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with a Mixed Fleet of Conventional and Electric Vehicles and Soft Time Windows
title_short Bi-Objective Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with a Mixed Fleet of Conventional and Electric Vehicles and Soft Time Windows
title_sort bi objective optimization for vehicle routing problems with a mixed fleet of conventional and electric vehicles and soft time windows
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9086229
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