Amsterdam Multimodal Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Case Study: Canal-Road Network, HoReCa Demand, and Satellite Location Scenarios

This real-world dataset supports a case study on urban freight distribution for HoReCa (hotels, restaurants, and cafés) in Amsterdam’s city center. It enables the simulation and optimization of multimodal two-echelon vehicle routing problems (2E-VRPs), where the first echelon uses waterborne transport (via canals) and the second echelon uses road-based transport.

The dataset includes:

Multimodal Networks:
- A first-echelon (FE) network over Amsterdam’s canals, constrained by vessel profile compatibility (profile B), based on canal passage profiles of Amsterdam (in Dutch: doorvaartprofielen).
- A second-echelon (SE) road network with both directed (vehicle) and undirected (walking) paths.

Shortest Path Matrices:
- Directed shortest path matrix for FE network routing.
- Directed and undirected shortest path matrices for SE network routing.

Demand Sets:
- Ten daily demand scenarios for 1620 HoReCa establishments, generated using randomized procedures.

Satellite Service Network Designs (SNDs):
- A set of service network design scenarios that define which of the potential satellites (transshipment facilities) are active for each configuration.

Geospatial Data:
- Shapefiles for HoReCa locations, satellite locations, and FE and SE network segments and nodes, bundled with a QGIS project for visualization and spatial analysis.

Figures:
- Visualizations of the multimodal (canal and street) network canal and street networks, demand distributions, and satellite coverage.

This dataset was developed in collaboration with the Municipality of Amsterdam and is intended to facilitate research on multimodal logistics, urban sustainability, policy-driven transport planning, and algorithmic developments in advanced 2E-VRPs within constrained city environments.