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Game—The Beer Transportation Game: How to Decarbonize Logistics by Moving Freight to Sustainable Transport Modes

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INFORMS Transactions on Education

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    Moving freight to sustainable transport modes is one of the most frequently mentioned suggestions to decarbonize logistics. Regrettably, even with regulation and technology developing over the past years, most of the freight volumes are still shipped via ...
Electric Vehicles with a Battery Switching Station: Adoption and Environmental Impact

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Management Science

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    The transportation sector's carbon footprint and dependence on oil are of deep concern to policy makers in many countries. Use of all-electric drive trains is arguably the most realistic medium-term solution to address these concerns. However, motorist ...
Energy-Efficient Urban Traffic Management: A Microscopic Simulation-Based Approach

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Transportation Science

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    Microscopic urban traffic simulators embed the most detailed traveler behavior and network supply models. These simulators represent individual vehicles and can therefore account for vehicle-specific technologies. They can be coupled with instantaneous ...
Shared Mobility for Last-Mile Delivery: Design, Operational Prescriptions, and Environmental Impact

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M&SOM

    Abstract
    Two socioeconomic transformations, namely, the booms in the sharing economy and retail e-commerce, lead to the prospect where shared mobility of passenger cars prevails throughout urban areas for home delivery services. Logistics service providers as well ...
Coordinated Logistics with a Truck and a Drone

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Management Science

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    We determine the efficiency of a delivery system in which an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) provides service to customers while making return trips to a truck that is itself moving. In other words, a UAV picks up a package from the truck (which continues ...
Online Retailers Undervalue the Brand Equity of Green Delivery Options

Josué C. Velázquez Martínez and Ken Cottrill

Published Online: December 7, 2020
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