2,023
Views
20
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Sustainable vehicle routing of agro-food grains in the e-commerce industry

, , & ORCID Icon
Pages 7319-7344 | Received 30 Mar 2021, Accepted 18 Jan 2022, Published online: 14 Feb 2022

References

  • Allaoui, Hamid, Yuhan Guo, Alok Choudhary, and Jacqueline Bloemhof. 2018. “Sustainable Agro-Food Supply Chain Design Using Two-Stage Hybrid Multi-Objective Decision-Making Approach.” Computers and Operations Research 89: 369–384. doi:10.1016/j.cor.2016.10.012.
  • Allen, J., M. Piecyk, M. Piotrowska, F. McLeod, T. Cherrett, K. Ghali, T. Nguyen, et al. 2018. “Understanding the Impact of E-Commerce on Last-Mile Light Goods Vehicle Activity in Urban Areas: The Case of London.” Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 61 (Part B): 325–338. doi:10.1016/j.trd.2017.07.020.
  • Aworh, O. Charles. 2021. “Food Safety Issues in Fresh Produce Supply Chain with Particular Reference to Sub-Saharan Africa.” Food Control 123: 107737. doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107737.
  • Bahri, Virat. 2020. “Foodgrain Storage Losses in India: Waste Not, Want Not.” India Business and Trade. https://www.tpci.in/indiabusinesstrade.
  • Batarfi, Raaid, Mohamad Y. Jaber, and Simone Zanoni. 2016. “Dual-Channel Supply Chain: A Strategy to Maximize Profit.” Applied Mathematical Modelling 40 (21–22): 9454–9473. doi:10.1016/j.apm.2016.06.008.
  • Bektaş, Tolga, and Gilbert Laporte. 2011. “The Pollution-Routing Problem.” Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 45 (8): 1232–1250. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2011.02.004.
  • Bergmann, Felix M., Stephan M. Wagner, and Matthias Winkenbach. 2020. “Integrating First-Mile Pick-up and Last-Mile Delivery on Shared Vehicle Routes for Efficient Urban e-Commerce Distribution.” Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 131: 26–62. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2019.09.013.
  • Černý, V. 1985. “Thermodynamical Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem: An Efficient Simulation Algorithm.” Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 45 (1): 41–51. doi:10.1007/BF00940812.
  • Das, Swagatam, Ajith Abraham, Uday K. Chakraborty, and Amit Konar. 2009. “Differential Evolution Using a Neighborhood-Based Mutation Operator.” IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 13 (3): 526–553. doi:10.1109/TEVC.2008.2009457.
  • Dündar, Hasan, Mine Ömürgönülşen, and Mehmet Soysal. 2021. “A Review on Sustainable Urban Vehicle Routing.” Journal of Cleaner Production 285. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125444.
  • Dwivedi, Ashish, Ajay Jha, Dhirendra Prajapati, Nenavath Sreenu, and Saurabh Pratap. 2020. “Meta-Heuristic Algorithms for Solving the Sustainable Agro-Food Grain Supply Chain Network Design Problem Supply Chains.” Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications 7: 2631–3971. doi:10.1108/MSCRA-04-2020-0007.
  • Emeç, Uʇur, Bülent Çatay, and Burcin Bozkaya. 2016. “An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search for an E-Grocery Delivery Routing Problem.” Computers and Operations Research 69: 109–125. doi:10.1016/j.cor.2015.11.008.
  • Esteso, Ana, M. M. E. Alemany, and Angel Ortiz. 2018. “Conceptual Framework for Designing Agri-Food Supply Chains Under Uncertainty by Mathematical Programming Models.” International Journal of Production Research 56 (13): 4418–4446. doi:10.1080/00207543.2018.1447706.
  • Fan, Shenggen, Paul Teng, Ping Chew, Geoffry Smith, and Les Copeland. 2021. “Food System Resilience and COVID-19 – Lessons from the Asian Experience.” Global Food Security, doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100501.
  • Ficco, Massimo, Christian Esposito, Francesco Palmieri, and Aniello Castiglione. 2018. “A Coral-Reefs and Game Theory-Based Approach for Optimizing Elastic Cloud Resource Allocation.” Future Generation Computer Systems 78 (Part 1): 343–352. doi:10.1016/j.future.2016.05.025.
  • Gaing, Zwe-Lee. 2003. “Particle Swarm Optimization to Solving the Economic Dispatch Considering the Generator Constraints.” IEEE Transaction on Power Systems 18 (3): 1187–1195.
  • García-Álvarez, Jorge, Miguel A. González, and Camino R. Vela. 2018. “Metaheuristics for Solving a Real-World Electric Vehicle Charging Scheduling Problem.” Applied Soft Computing Journal 65: 292–306. doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2018.01.010.
  • Giallanza, Antonio, and Gabriella Li Puma. 2020. “Fuzzy Green Vehicle Routing Problem for Designing a Three Echelons Supply Chain.” Journal of Cleaner Production 259: 120774. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120774.
  • Goswami, M., and Y. Daultani. 2021. “Make-in-India and Industry 4.0: Technology Readiness of Select Firms, Barriers and Socio-Technical Implications.” The TQM Journal. doi:10.1108/TQM-06-2021-0179.
  • Govindan, Kannan, Ahmad Jafarian, and Vahid Nourbakhsh. 2019. “Designing a Sustainable Supply Chain Network Integrated with Vehicle Routing: A Comparison of Hybrid Swarm Intelligence Metaheuristics.” Computers and Operations Research 110: 220–235. doi:10.1016/j.cor.2018.11.013.
  • Grangier, Philippe, Michel Gendreau, Fabien Lehuédé, and Louis Martin Rousseau. 2016. “An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search for the Two-Echelon Multiple-Trip Vehicle Routing Problem with Satellite Synchronization.” European Journal of Operational Research 254 (1): 80–91. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2016.03.040.
  • Gray, Richard S. 2020. “Agriculture, Transportation, and the COVID-19 Crisis.” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 68 (2): 239–243. doi:10.1111/cjag.12235.
  • Gutierrez-Rodríguez, Andres E., Santiago E. Conant-Pablos, José C. Ortiz-Bayliss, and Hugo Terashima-Marín. 2019. “Selecting Meta-Heuristics for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows via Meta-Learning.” Expert Systems with Applications 118: 470–481. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2018.10.036.
  • Haleem, Abid, Shahbaz Khan, and Mohd Imran Khan. 2019. “Traceability Implementation in Food Supply Chain: A Grey-DEMATEL Approach.” Information Processing in Agriculture 6 ((3): 335–348. doi:10.1016/j.inpa.2019.01.003.
  • Han, Yuxuan. 2021. “Advantages of Self-Logistics and the Third-Party Logistics -Taking Jingdong Electronic Shopping Mall as an Example.” E3S Web of Conferences 235. doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202123503008.
  • Hannan, M. A., Mahmuda Akhtar, R. A. Begum, H. Basri, A. Hussain, and Edgar Scavino. 2018. “Capacitated Vehicle-Routing Problem Model for Scheduled Solid Waste Collection and Route Optimization Using PSO Algorithm.” Waste Management 71: 31–41. doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2017.10.019.
  • He, Ping, Shanshan Zhang, and Chao He. 2019. “Impacts of Logistics Resource Sharing on B2C E-Commerce Companies and Customers.” Electronic Commerce Research and Applications 34. doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2018.100820.
  • Huang, Lin, Wenya Lv, Qian Sun, and Chengle Ma. 2019. “Discrete Optimization Model and Algorithm for Driver Planning in Periodic Driver Routing Problem.” Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 2019. doi:10.1155/2019/9476362.
  • Jonkman, Jochem, Ana P Barbosa-povoa, and Jacqueline M Bloemhof. 2018. “Integrating Harvesting Decisions in the Design of Agro-Food Supply Chains.” European Journal of Operational Research 276 (1): 247–258. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2018.12.024.
  • Juang, Chia Feng. 2004. “A Hybrid of Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization for Recurrent Network Design.” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics 34 (2): 997–1006. doi:10.1109/TSMCB.2003.818557.
  • Kamble, Sachin S., Angappa Gunasekaran, and Shradha A. Gawankar. 2020. “Achieving Sustainable Performance in a Data-Driven Agriculture Supply Chain: A Review for Research and Applications.” International Journal of Production Economics 219: 179–194. doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.05.022.
  • Kerr, Alexander, and Kieran Mullen. 2019. “A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing in Maximizing the Thermal Conductance of Harmonic Lattices.” Computational Materials Science 157 (1): 31–36. doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.10.007.
  • Kumar, Akhilesh, Martina Calzavara, Nagendra R. Velaga, Alok Choudhary, and Ravi Shankar. 2019. “Modelling and Analysis of Sustainable Freight Transportation.” International Journal of Production Research 57 (19): 6086–6089. doi:10.1080/00207543.2019.1642689.
  • Leelertkij, Thanapat, Parthana Parthanadee, and Jirachai Buddhakulsomsiri. 2021. “Vehicle Routing Problem with Transshipment: Mathematical Model and Algorithm.” Journal of Advanced Transportation 2021. doi:10.1155/2021/8886572.
  • Leroux, N. 2001. “Dominant Factors Impacting Development of B2B ECommerce in Agriculture.” International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 4: 205–218.
  • Lewis, R., and K. Smith-Miles. 2018. “A Heuristic Algorithm for Finding Cost-Effective Solutions to Real-World School Bus Routing Problems.” Journal of Discrete Algorithms 52–53: 2–17. doi:10.1016/j.jda.2018.11.001.
  • Maiyar, Lohithaksha M., and Jitesh J Thakkar. 2020. “Robust Optimisation of Sustainable Food Grain Transportation with Uncertain Supply and Intentional Disruptions.” International Journal of Production Research 58 (18): 5651–5675. doi:10.1080/00207543.2019.1656836.
  • Mangla, Sachin Kumar, L. Sunil, N. Rich, D. Kumar, N. P. Rana, and Y. K. Dwivedi. 2018. “Enablers to Implement Sustainable Initiatives in Agri-Food Supply Chains.” International Journal of Production Economics 203: 379–393. doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.07.012.
  • Meena, S. R., S. D. Meena, S. Pratap, R. Patidar, and Y. Daultani. 2019. “Strategic Analysis of the Indian Agri-Food Supply Chain.” OPSEARCH 56 (3): 965–982.
  • Metropolis, Nicholas, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, Marshall N. Rosenbluth, Augusta H. Teller, and Edward Teller. 1953. “Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 21 (6): 1087–1092. doi:10.1063/1.1699114.
  • Mogale, D. G., Abhijeet Ghadge, Sri Krishna Kumar, and Manoj Kumar Tiwari. 2020. “Modelling Supply Chain Network for Procurement of Food Grains in India.” International Journal of Production Research 58 (21): 6493–6512. doi:10.1080/00207543.2019.1682707.
  • Naik, Gopal, and D. N. Suresh. 2018. “Challenges of Creating Sustainable Agri-Retail Supply Chains.” IIMB Management Review 30 (3): 270–282. doi:10.1016/j.iimb.2018.04.001.
  • Nogueira, Geísa Pereira Marcilio, Joao Jose de Assis Rangel, and Eduardo Shimoda. 2021. “Sustainable Last-Mile Distribution in B2C e-Commerce: Do Consumers Really Care?.” Cleaner and Responsible Consumption 3: 100021. doi:10.1016/j.clrc.2021.100021.
  • Okulewicz, Michał, and Jacek Mańdziuk. 2017. “The Impact of Particular Components of the PSO-Based Algorithm Solving the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem.” Applied Soft Computing Journal 58: 586–604. doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2017.04.070.
  • Pan, Shenle, Wei Zhou, Selwyn Piramuthu, Vaggelis Giannikas, and Chao Chen. 2021. “Smart City for Sustainable Urban Freight Logistics.” International Journal of Production Research 59 (7): 2079–2089. doi:10.1080/00207543.2021.1893970.
  • Prajapati, Dhirendra, Arjun R. Harish, Yash Daultani, Harpreet Singh, and Saurabh Pratap. 2020. “A Clustering Based Routing Heuristic for Last-Mile Logistics in Fresh Food E-Commerce.” Global Business Review. doi:10.1177/0972150919889797.
  • Prajapati, Dhirendra, Fuli Zhou, Mengdi Zhang, H. Chelladurai, and Saurabh Pratap. 2021. “Sustainable Logistics Network Design for Multi-Products Delivery Operations in B2B e-Commerce Platform.” Sādhanā 46: 1–13. doi:10.1007/s12046-021-01624-1.
  • Roushdy, Mohamed, and Abdel Badeeh M Salem. 2005. “Case-Based and Ontology Learning Approaches for Developing e-Learning Systems.” WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications 2. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1665-5.
  • Schleibinger, Hans, Detlef Laußmann, Dieter Eis, Henning Samwer, and Henning Rüden. 2004. “Sind MVOC Geeignete Indikatoren Für Einen Verdeckten Schimmelpilzbefall?” Umweltmedizin in Forschung Und Praxis 9 (3): 151–162. doi:10.1007/BF01009452.
  • Sherif, S. U., P. Asokan, P. Sasikumar, K. Mathiyazhagan, and J. Jerald. 2021. “Integrated Optimization of Transportation, Inventory and Vehicle Routing with Simultaneous Pick-up and Delivery in Two-Echelon Green Supply Chain Network.” Journal of Cleaner Production 287: 125434. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125434.
  • Singh, G., Y. Daultani, and R. Sahu. 2021. “Investigating the Barriers to Growth in the Indian Food Processing Sector.” OPSEARCH, 1–19. doi:10.1007/s12597-021-00553-1.
  • Singh, S. N., J. Østergaard, and J. Yadagiri. 2009. “Application of Advanced Particle Swarm Optimization Techniques to Wind-Thermal Coordination.” 2009 15th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems, ISAP ‘09. doi:10.1109/ISAP.2009.5352912.
  • Sodeifian, Gholamhossein, Seyed Ali Sajadian, and Nedasadat Saadati Ardestani. 2017. “Experimental Optimization and Mathematical Modeling of the Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Essential Oil from Eryngium Billardieri: Application of Simulated Annealing (SA) Algorithm.” Journal of Supercritical Fluids 127 (January): 146–157. doi:10.1016/j.supflu.2017.04.007.
  • Subramanyam, Anirudh, Akang Wang, and Chrysanthos E. Gounaris. 2018. “A Scenario Decomposition Algorithm for Strategic Time Window Assignment Vehicle Routing Problems.” Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 117: 296–317. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2018.09.008.
  • Tilahun, Nebiyou, Piyushimita Vonu Thakuriah, Moyin Li, and Yaye Keita. 2016. “Transit Use and the Work Commute: Analyzing the Role of Last Mile Issues.” Journal of Transport Geography 54: 359–368. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.06.021.
  • Timajchi, Ali, Seyed M.J. Mirzapour Al-e-Hashem, and Yacine Rekik. 2018. “Inventory Routing Problem for Hazardous and Deteriorating Items in the Presence of Accident Risk with Transshipment Option.” International Journal of Production Economics 209: 302–315. doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.01.018.
  • Tsugawa, Sadayuki. 2005. “Issues and Recent Trends in Vehicle Safety Communication Systems.” International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences 29 (1): 7–15. doi:10.1016/S0386-1112(14)60113-8.
  • Viet, Nguyen Quoc, Behdani Behzad, and Jacqueline Bloemhof. 2020. “Data-Driven Process Redesign: Anticipatory Shipping in Agro-Food Supply Chains.” International Journal of Production Research 58 (5): 1302–1318. doi:10.1080/00207543.2019.1629673.
  • Wang, Hui, Wenjun Wang, Xinyu Zhou, Hui Sun, Jia Zhao, Xiang Yu, and Zhihua Cui. 2017. “Firefly Algorithm with Neighborhood Attraction.” Information Sciences 382–383: 374–387. doi:10.1016/j.ins.2016.12.024.
  • Yang, X. S., and J. P. Papa. 2016. “Bio-Inspired Computation and Its Applications in Image Processing: An Overview.” Bio-Inspired Computation and Applications in Image Processing. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-804536-7.00001-6.
  • Yousefikhoshbakht, Majid, Azam Dolatnejad, Farzad Didehvar, and Farhad Rahmati. 2016. “A Modified Column Generation to Solve the Heterogeneous Fixed Fleet Open Vehicle Routing Problem.” Journal of Engineering (United States) 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/5692792.
  • Zhang, Mengdi, Saurabh Pratap, Zhiheng Zhao, D. Prajapati, and George Q. Huang. 2020. “Forward and Reverse Logistics Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Horizons in B2C E-Commerce Logistics.” International Journal of Production Research 59 (20): 6291–6310. doi:10.1080/00207543.2020.1812749.
  • Zhang, Yuankai, Lijun Sun, Xiangpei Hu, and Chen Zhao. 2019. “Order Consolidation for the Last-Mile Split Delivery in Online Retailing.” Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 122: 309–327. doi:10.1016/j.tre.2018.12.011.
  • Zhu, Zhanguo, Feng Chu, Alexandre Dolgui, Chengbin Chu, Wei Zhou, and Selwyn Piramuthu. 2018. “Recent Advances and Opportunities in Sustainable Food Supply Chain: A Model-Oriented Review.” International Journal of Production Research 56 (17): 5700–5722. doi:10.1080/00207543.2018.1425014.
  • Zhu, Lan, and Dawei Hu. 2019. “Study on the Vehicle Routing Problem Considering Congestion and Emission Factors.” International Journal of Production Research 57 (19): 6115–6129. doi:10.1080/00207543.2018.1533260.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.