Special issue of Networks: New network models and approaches for logistics and transportation

摘要

Modern logistics and related novel applications require approaches to monitoring and cost reduction that are innovative, highly effective, and conducive to social and environmental sustainability. For this purpose, this special issue collects seven papers proposing innovative network-based models and approaches. This group includes work that adopts both theoretical and applied approaches. Six of these papers share the common modeling framework of transportation networks. Specially, five papers deal with routing problems, considering different application scenarios, one engages in a theoretic analysis in the field of transportation network cooperative games, and one proposes an innovative operation-time-space network that can be easily adapted to model different logistic problems involving time and space decisions.