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Reducing Environmental Impact Using Vehicle Route Planning

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Innovations in Industrial Engineering II (icieng 2022)

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Companies focus on achieving high service levels and need to combine short service times with the dynamics between cost and quality. Their transportation systems are therefore a fundamental part; they must be reliable and efficient. This study was implemented in a company of the marine industry, and its final product has special characteristics that require special transportation, i.e., they need a truck with a special structure to be able to transport the boats. This situation causes the vehicle to return empty to the company, a route that the company must support economically. The company has already approached several options with logistic service providers (3PL) without obtaining positive solutions. It is in this sense that the present project arises, which aims to develop a tool for the creation of round-trip circuits, given that in the current context the company intends to acquire a vehicle with reduced environmental impact. In a first phase we analyze the company’s needs based on the unique characteristics of the final product, then we study the existing options on the market. Culminating in the proposal of a vehicle that allows performing a circuit in round trip (distribute the final product and return with raw material and not empty) powered by renewable energy.

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  1. ADiT-LAB, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial Nun’ Álvares, 4900-347, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

    Lia Coelho de Oliveira, Oleksandr Pavlenko & Jorge Esparteiro Garcia

  2. INESCT TEC, Porto, Portugal

    Lia Coelho de Oliveira & Jorge Esparteiro Garcia

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    José Machado

  2. Department of Industrial Electronics, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Filomena Soares

  3. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland

    Justyna Trojanowska

  4. Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine

    Vitalii Ivanov

  5. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland

    Katarzyna Antosz

  6. School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

    Yi Ren

  7. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Waranga, Hanamkonda, India

    Vijaya Kumar Manupati

  8. Faculty of Industrial Engineering, University of Vigo, Galicia, Pontevedra, Spain

    Alejandro Pereira

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de Oliveira, L.C., Pavlenko, O., Garcia, J.E. (2023). Reducing Environmental Impact Using Vehicle Route Planning. In: Machado, J., et al. Innovations in Industrial Engineering II. icieng 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09360-9_21

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