Abstract:

In recent years, green logistics has been a popular topic in road freight distribution. Many papers considered the reduction of environmental effects, i.e., CO2 emissions, of conventional vehicles. Electric vehicles are commonly used in distribution problems which naturally introduced a new problem called as Electric Vehicle Routing Problem (E-VRP). The aim of this problem is to minimize the total distribution cost. In the E-VRP, each customer is visited once by one vehicle, each route starts and ends at the depot, vehicles can charge their batteries at charging stations, and some side constraints are satisfied. This survey paper first reviews the studies on green Vehicle Routing Problem, and then on the E-VRP. The paper also proposes a number of promising research directions.

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