The Efficiency of Discrete Event Systems for the General Pickup and Delivery Problem with Electric Vehicles

Abstract

Transport on-demand is an issue in the Vehicle Routing Problem which involves transporting a collection of goods from the source (depot) to their destination (customers) and inversely. This paper analyzes and forecasts the viability of using discrete event systems in a subset of this general problem known as pickup and delivery problems in the literature and projects on an automated manufacturing cell with an optimization approach for the vehicle’s energy consumption.