Optimizing Transportation Costs: Enhancing Logistics Efficiency and Resource Utilization in Dynamic Environments

The increasing demand for goods transportation, driven by the expansion of global supply chains and rising customer expectations, underscores the critical need to optimize transportation costs to enhance logistics efficiency. In a rapidly evolving and competitive market, businesses face mounting challenges in managing complex transportation networks, minimizing operational costs, and meeting diverse customer requirements. To address these issues, this paper introduces a solution designed to reduce transportation expenses by optimizing the flow of goods and improving resource utilization. By leveraging advanced optimization techniques and data-driven strategies, the proposed solution identifies inefficiencies, streamlines decision-making, and enhances resource allocation. Initial results demonstrate that this approach not only significantly reduces operational costs but also strengthens the ability of businesses to respond quickly and effectively to fluctuating customer demands, ensuring both cost efficiency and customer satisfaction. However, as the logistics industry continues to grow and transaction volumes increase, transportation scenarios are expected to become more complex, and customer requirements more diverse. This evolving landscape demands further refinement and scalability of the proposed solution to address larger networks, more intricate logistics challenges, and a broader range of customer demands. Future research will prioritize the development of larger-scale models capable of incorporating more variables, improving computational efficiency, and delivering faster, more accurate decision-making to meet the increasing complexity of the logistics sector. Therefore, the proposed solution represents a significant advancement in optimizing transportation costs and improving logistics efficiency. Initial results indicate that this solution can cut down transportation costs by 19.02% to 29.65% and enhance computational efficiency in small- to medium-scale routing tasks (10–20 customers). Despite its potential, more research is required to justify scalability to larger datasets. Hence, our approach provides a solid foundation for logistics optimization, with clear prospects for expansion and adaptation in real-world contexts.

vehicle routing problem (VRP), linear programming (LP), ant colony optimization (ACO), integer linear programming (ILP), DBSCAN, genetic algorithms (GA)