Minimizing the Impact of Large Freight Vehicles in the City: A Multicriteria Vision for Route Planning and Type of Vehicles

The impact of freight transport in cities is significant, and as such correct planning and management thereof help reduce their enormous negative impact. Above all, the special large vehicles have a greater impact than the remainder of freight vehicles, so a special attention should be paid to them....

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Main Authors: Sara Ezquerro, Juan P. Romero, Jose L. Moura, Juan Benavente, Ángel Ibeas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Transportation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1732091
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description The impact of freight transport in cities is significant, and as such correct planning and management thereof help reduce their enormous negative impact. Above all, the special large vehicles have a greater impact than the remainder of freight vehicles, so a special attention should be paid to them. The vehicles which supply or pick up large amounts of goods at specific points throughout the city are an example of this type of vehicles. The aim of this paper is to minimize the cost of this freight transport type from a social, economic, and environmental viewpoint. To this effect, an optimization model has been proposed based on bilevel mathematical programming which minimizes the total system costs. City network model data are obtained on the lower level such as vehicle flow and travelling times, which are then used on the upper level to calculate total system costs. The model has been applied to a real case in Santander (Spain), whose final result shows the size and typology of the fleet of vehicles necessary to have the least impact on the city. The greater the vehicles size is (i.e., using fewer trucks), the less the cost of the freight transport is.
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spelling doaj-art-e86293ca3500426d982a383e2dac8d9f2025-08-20T03:21:03ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation0197-67292042-31952018-01-01201810.1155/2018/17320911732091Minimizing the Impact of Large Freight Vehicles in the City: A Multicriteria Vision for Route Planning and Type of VehiclesSara Ezquerro0Juan P. Romero1Jose L. Moura2Juan Benavente3Ángel Ibeas4G.I.S.T. Group of Research in Transport Systems, University of Cantabria, Cantabria, SpainG.I.S.T. Group of Research in Transport Systems, University of Cantabria, Cantabria, SpainG.I.S.T. Group of Research in Transport Systems, University of Cantabria, Cantabria, SpainG.I.S.T. Group of Research in Transport Systems, University of Cantabria, Cantabria, SpainG.I.S.T. Group of Research in Transport Systems, University of Cantabria, Cantabria, SpainThe impact of freight transport in cities is significant, and as such correct planning and management thereof help reduce their enormous negative impact. Above all, the special large vehicles have a greater impact than the remainder of freight vehicles, so a special attention should be paid to them. The vehicles which supply or pick up large amounts of goods at specific points throughout the city are an example of this type of vehicles. The aim of this paper is to minimize the cost of this freight transport type from a social, economic, and environmental viewpoint. To this effect, an optimization model has been proposed based on bilevel mathematical programming which minimizes the total system costs. City network model data are obtained on the lower level such as vehicle flow and travelling times, which are then used on the upper level to calculate total system costs. The model has been applied to a real case in Santander (Spain), whose final result shows the size and typology of the fleet of vehicles necessary to have the least impact on the city. The greater the vehicles size is (i.e., using fewer trucks), the less the cost of the freight transport is.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1732091
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Journal of Advanced Transportation
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