Environmental Approach for the Design of Raw Milk Collection Routes with a Heterogeneous Fleet

This paper focuses on determining the raw milk collection routes with heterogeneous fleet aiming to minimize the average operational emissions of carbon dioxide. The problem is a particular case of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) which considers the variation of emissions in terms of load and dist...

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Autores: López Castro, Luis Francisco, Solano Charris, Elyn, Pagès Bernaus, Adela
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2023.107995
https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/463837
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Palabra clave:Milk collection
Vehicle routing
Heterogeneous fleet
Emissions
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spelling Environmental Approach for the Design of Raw Milk Collection Routes with a Heterogeneous FleetLópez Castro, Luis FranciscoSolano Charris, ElynPagès Bernaus, AdelaMilk collectionVehicle routingHeterogeneous fleetEmissionsThis paper focuses on determining the raw milk collection routes with heterogeneous fleet aiming to minimize the average operational emissions of carbon dioxide. The problem is a particular case of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) which considers the variation of emissions in terms of load and distance. Two types of the problem are studied, one in which the routes of the available fleet are optimized, and another which determines the configuration of the fleet and its routes. For solving the problems, an exact method based on a Branch and Bound formulation and a multi-start heuristic based on the Iterated Local Search (ILS) are implemented. Randomly generated instances were implemented inspired by the conditions of the Ubaté-Chiquinquirá dairy region in central Colombia, considered one of the five largest milk producers with the highest daily productivity. The instances have a combination of different factors which are: the location of the processing plant, the farms in clusters, and the number of farms. The analysis reveals that in terms of route design, an environmental approach can produce an increase in the distance traveled by vehicles (up to 60%) while reducing the overall emissions, and also the importance of replacing part of the large and polluting vehicles with smaller vehicles with lower emissions. The results may facilitate decision-making, provide insights for shifting to sustainable approaches in routing problems, and suggest future worksThis work was funded by the Doctoral program in Management of Organizations from the International School of Economic and Administrative Sciences, and the internal call for the financing of research, creation, technological development and innovation projects - 2021 at Universidad de La Sabana [grant number EICEAPHD-2-2021]. The research stay, in which this work was carried out, was possible thanks to the sponsorship of the mobility scholarship program of the Ibero-American Postgraduate University Association (AUIP).Elsevier2023info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2023.107995https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/463837reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2023.107995Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2023, vol. 211, art. 107995cc-by-nc-nd, (c) López-Castro et al., 2023Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/4638372026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Environmental Approach for the Design of Raw Milk Collection Routes with a Heterogeneous Fleet
title Environmental Approach for the Design of Raw Milk Collection Routes with a Heterogeneous Fleet
spellingShingle Environmental Approach for the Design of Raw Milk Collection Routes with a Heterogeneous Fleet
López Castro, Luis Francisco
Milk collection
Vehicle routing
Heterogeneous fleet
Emissions
title_short Environmental Approach for the Design of Raw Milk Collection Routes with a Heterogeneous Fleet
title_full Environmental Approach for the Design of Raw Milk Collection Routes with a Heterogeneous Fleet
title_fullStr Environmental Approach for the Design of Raw Milk Collection Routes with a Heterogeneous Fleet
title_full_unstemmed Environmental Approach for the Design of Raw Milk Collection Routes with a Heterogeneous Fleet
title_sort Environmental Approach for the Design of Raw Milk Collection Routes with a Heterogeneous Fleet
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv López Castro, Luis Francisco
Solano Charris, Elyn
Pagès Bernaus, Adela
author López Castro, Luis Francisco
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Solano Charris, Elyn
Pagès Bernaus, Adela
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Pagès Bernaus, Adela
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Milk collection
Vehicle routing
Heterogeneous fleet
Emissions
topic Milk collection
Vehicle routing
Heterogeneous fleet
Emissions
description This paper focuses on determining the raw milk collection routes with heterogeneous fleet aiming to minimize the average operational emissions of carbon dioxide. The problem is a particular case of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) which considers the variation of emissions in terms of load and distance. Two types of the problem are studied, one in which the routes of the available fleet are optimized, and another which determines the configuration of the fleet and its routes. For solving the problems, an exact method based on a Branch and Bound formulation and a multi-start heuristic based on the Iterated Local Search (ILS) are implemented. Randomly generated instances were implemented inspired by the conditions of the Ubaté-Chiquinquirá dairy region in central Colombia, considered one of the five largest milk producers with the highest daily productivity. The instances have a combination of different factors which are: the location of the processing plant, the farms in clusters, and the number of farms. The analysis reveals that in terms of route design, an environmental approach can produce an increase in the distance traveled by vehicles (up to 60%) while reducing the overall emissions, and also the importance of replacing part of the large and polluting vehicles with smaller vehicles with lower emissions. The results may facilitate decision-making, provide insights for shifting to sustainable approaches in routing problems, and suggest future works
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Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2023, vol. 211, art. 107995
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