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The paper presents an approach to solving the Robust Energy Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (RECVRP), focusing on electric vehicles and their limited battery capacity. A finite number of customers, each with their own demand, have to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Mark Pustilnik , Francesco Borrelli

The rapid growth of urban populations and the increasing need for sustainable transportation solutions have prompted a shift towards electric buses in public transit systems. However, the effective management of mixed fleets consisting of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Rishav Sen , Amutheezan Sivagnanam , Aron Laszka , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Abhishek Dubey

Integrating demand-responsive mobility services with transit systems is recognized as a practical and effective strategy to mitigate their impact on traffic congestion and the environment. This study develops an efficient hybrid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Yumeng Fang , Tai-Yu Ma

The accelerated electrification of transport systems with EVs has brought new challenges for charging scheduling, fleet management, and charging infrastructure location and configuration planning. In this review, we have provided a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Tai-Yu Ma , Yumeng Fang

This paper investigates a variant of the dial-a-ride problem (DARP), namely Risk-aware DARP (RDARP). Our RDARP extends the DARP by (1) minimizing a weighted sum of travel cost and disease-transmission risk exposure for onboard passengers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Shuocheng Guo , Iman Dayarian , Jian Li , Xinwu Qian

We consider a cooperative vehicle routing problem for surveillance and reconnaissance missions with communication constraints between the vehicles. We propose a framework which involves a ground vehicle and an aerial vehicle; the vehicles…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-01 Satyanarayana Manyam , David Casbeer , Kaarthik Sundar

Electric Location-Routing models (ELRP) can contribute to the effective planning of electric vehicles (EVs) fleets and charging infrastructure within EV logistic networks because it simultaneously combines routing and location decisions to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Luiz Eduardo Cotta Monteiro , Rafael Martinelli

Ridesharing has been emerging as a new type of mobility. However, the early promises of ridesharing for alleviating congestion in cities may be undermined by a number of challenges, including the growing number of proposed services and the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Venktesh Pandey , Julien Monteil , Claudio Gambella , Andrea Simonetto

The growing need for sustainable logistics solutions has led to the evolution of vehicle routing problems (VRPs) into more complex variants that address modern challenges. Among these, the Two-Echelon Electric Vehicle Routing Problem…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Mehmet Anıl Akbay , Christian Blum

In response to carbon-neutral policies in developed countries, electric vehicles route optimization has gained importance for logistics companies. With the increasing focus on customer expectations and the shift towards more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Arash Mozhdehi , Mahdi Mohammadizadeh , Xin Wang

An increase in greenhouse gases emission from the transportation sector has led companies and the government to elevate and support the production of electric vehicles (EV). With recent developments in urbanization and e-commerce,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Seyed Sajjad Fazeli , Saravanan Venkatachalam , Jonathon M. Smereka

This paper aims to introduce a mathematical model to solve the time-dependent electric vehicles routing problem in shared travels. Shared mobility has gained significance recently due to its contribution to the alleviation of traffic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Alireza Yazdiani , Shayan Bafandkar , Amir Elmi , Yousef Shafahi

The use of electric vehicles (EV) in the last mile is appealing from both sustainability and operational cost perspectives. In addition to the inherent cost efficiency of EVs, selling energy back to the grid during peak grid demand, is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Ajay Narayanan , Prasant Misra , Ankush Ojha , Vivek Bandhu , Supratim Ghosh , Arunchandar Vasan

This paper addresses an Electric Vehicle Relocation Problem (E-VReP), in one-way carsharing systems, based on operators who move through folding bicycles between a delivery request and one of pickup. In order to deal with its economical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Maurizio Bruglieri , Ferdinando Pezzella , Ornella Pisacane

In the classic Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) a fleet of of vehicles has to visit a set of customers while minimising the operations' costs. We study a rich variant of the VRP featuring split deliveries, an heterogeneous fleet, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Arthur Mahéo , Tommaso Urli , Philip Kilby

We consider the online versions of two fundamental routing problems, traveling salesman (TSP) and dial-a-ride (DARP), which have a variety of relevant applications in logistics and robotics. The online versions of these problems concern…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Swapnil Guragain , Gokarna Sharma

Electric vehicle (EV) aggregation can significantly influence the EVs charging/discharging behavior. In this paper, we use a distributed algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to coordinate EV charging and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Shahab Afshar , Shailesh Wasti , Vahid Disfani

This paper extends our previous work in [1],[2], on optimal scheduling of autonomous vehicle arrivals at intersections, from one to a grid of intersections. A scalable distributed Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) is devised that solves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Faraz Ashtiani , S. Alireza Fayazi , Ardalan Vahidi

We introduce the multimodal car- and ride-sharing problem (MMCRP), in which a pool of cars is used to cover a set of ride requests while uncovered requests are assigned to other modes of transport (MOT). A car's route consists of one or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Miriam Enzi , Sophie N. Parragh , David Pisinger , Matthias Prandtstetter

As electric vehicles (EVs) become central to decarbonization efforts, the need for uninterrupted power supply in time-critical logistics, particularly in medical transportation, poses unique challenges for power systems integration.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Jingyi Zhao , Haoxiang Yang , Youxuan Pan , Yang Liu