Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs) in Urban Areas, Revisited

Shifting the focus

“…Yet, they are also the preferred vehicle type for urban logistics in many European cities. In the Netherlands, for example, in 2017, between 15 000 to 25 000 LCVs were involved in e-commerce home delivery, and in the centre of Amsterdam, around 80% of all freight vehicles were LCVs (Visser et al, 2018). This is because, in optimised operations, these vehicles can carry higher payloads, which are essential for consolidating loads in a limited number of LCVs, thereby reducing vehicle numbers and bringing about efficiency and environmental gains.…”

Efficient Heuristic Algorithms for Location of Charging Stations in Electric Vehicle Routing Problems

“…The proposed location strategies are important for the Industry 4.0. Indeed, for the smart-cities, the road infrastructure cannot grow any more, and the use of electric vehicles increases every day with the government plans to encourage and promote their use (Visser et al al., 2017). This paper is organized as follows: the second section includes a review of the literature on electrical location and routing problems; the third section includes four proposals for the location of charging stations and the heuristics for the subsequent routing; lastly, we include the conclusions and future studies.…”