Beijing Key Laboratory of Traffic Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China 100012.

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Abstract—The off-hours delivery has been promoted as a mean to alleviate the traffic congestion and emission. However, such strategy can cause noise pollution to the residents who are close to the roads. To reduce such noise impact and transport costs simultaneously, this work intends to develop an algorithm to plan a route for delivery trucks to avoid the noise sensitive areas as much as possible while reduce transport costs. By considering the characteristics of land use, an algorithm to determine the noise vulnerability degree for each road link is developed in this paper. With the network associated with noise vulnerability degree and transport costs for each link, the routing problem is formulated as a bi-objective optimization problem, which can be easily solved by conventional approaches. Finally, to demonstrate the capability of the proposed algorithm, a simple delivery scenario has been taken and the comparison to the optimal route generated with single objective are made.

Index Terms—Off-hour delivery, optimal routing, traffic noise, noise reduction.

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Cite: Yang Wang, Shanshan Wei, Yanyan Chen, "Optimal Routing for Off-Hour Delivery Trucks with Noise- Reduction and Transport Costs Objectives," Journal of Computers vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 615-623, 2019.