The shared carrier shared depot collaboration vehicle routing problem

This study proposed a novel logistics collaboration model for a shared carrier shared depot collaboration vehicle routing problem (SCSDC-VRP) which inspired by the fact between a set of carriers and depots that a depot have order for multiple carriers and a carrier deliver order to multiple depots. This problem involves reducing transportation distance and improving capacity utilization by extending unilateral logistics collaboration between supply-sides to consider collaboration between supply-sides and collaboration between demand-sides simultaneously