Advanced OR and AI Methods in Transportation COMBINING VEHICLE ROUTING MODELS AND MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION TO MODEL AND EVALUATING CITY LOGISTICS APPLICATIONS
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The distribution of goods based on road services in urban areas contribute to traffic congestion, and generates environmental impacts As a consequence the design and evaluation of City Logistics applications requires an integrated modeling framework in which all components could work together. including also the dynamic aspects of the underlying road network, namely if ICT applications are taken into account. This paper presents a methodological proposal based on an integration of vehicle routing and, dynamic traffic simulation models that emulate the actual traffic conditions to determine the optimal dynamic routing and scheduling of the vehicle, that has been developed and tested in the European Project MEROPE of the INTERREG IIIB Programme, and in the national project SADERYL, sponsored by the Spanish DGCYT based on the microscopic traffic simulator AIMSUN.
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