Route planning for a mixed delivery system in long distance transportation and comparison with pure delivery systems

This paper deals with a long distance routing problem. The aim is to improve the use of the resources in order to reduce the distance. In this way of transport are known three kinds of pure distribution strategies: many to many, the trips are full truckload or the time restrictions are very tight, so they are direct shipments; the second one is known as peddling, in this case, closed collecting nodes are grouped in a truck and carried to the delivery node, or a collect node is carried to several closed delivery nodes; the last one is hub&spoke, in this case the hub is used as a depot to reorganize the freight. Previous researches usually study these strategies independently and every order is allocated the same distribution strategy.