Sustainable urban freight transport: A simheuristic approach

In modern society, sustainable transportation practices in smart cities are becoming increasingly important for both companies and citizens. This paper addresses a rich extension of the capacitated vehicle routing problem, which considers sustainability indicators and stochastic traveling times. A simheuristic approach integrating Monte Carlo simulation into a multi-start metaheuristic is proposed to solve it. A computational experiment is carried out to illustrate both the problem and the approach.