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Yizi Zhou
Yizi
Zhou
Rupal Rana
Rupal
Rana
Jiyin Liu
Jiyin
Liu
Scheduling and pricing of services to minimise CO2 emissions of delivery vehicles
Loughborough University
2019
Service delivery
Vehicle scheduling
Minimising CO2 emission
Dynamic pricing
Mathematical programming
Business and Management not elsewhere classified
2019-04-17 10:18:32
Conference contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Scheduling_and_pricing_of_services_to_minimise_CO2_emissions_of_delivery_vehicles/9499001
Previous research found that minimising emissions often conflicts with maximising profit in service delivery. In this study, we consider a service scheduling problem and propose a new
approach to the problem which applies low-emission vehicle scheduling techniques with
dynamic pricing to reduce CO2 emissions and maximise profit. Incentives are included in the
service prices to influence the customer’s choice in order to reduce CO2 emissions. To help
the company determining the incentives, our approach solves the problem in two phases. The
first phase solves vehicle scheduling models with the objective of minimising CO2 emissions
and the second phase solves a dynamic pricing model to maximise profit. This approach is tested through numerical experiments.