"The emerging technologies of Information and Communication Technologies, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and robots and drones, plus collaboration among stakeholders, can be used with data to model, plan and evaluate an efficient and sustainable urban freight...

This paper introduces the vehicle routing problem with soft time windows (VRPSTW) in which problem definition differs from ones previously defined in literature. Branch-and-price approach is employed, resulting in a set partitioning master problem and its new subproblem. Novel techniques are...

This paper presents an application of the exact solution approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows based on the column generation scheme developed earlier by the authors, for evaluating a truck ban scheme from the environmental improvement aspect on a realistic logistics...