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  • Posted at Dec 4, 2025
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Integrating Kilometer-Based Truck Toll into Route Optimization

The Dutch kilometer-based truck toll, starting in 2026, introduces variable costs per  kilometer based on vehicle weight and CO₂ emission class. This disrupts traditional  route planning, which typically optimizes for distance or time, by adding dynamic cost and sustainability objectives. The challenge is to design algorithms that can incorporate  toll costs and emissions into routing decisions while satisfying delivery constraints. This  transforms the classical Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) into a multi-objective  optimization problem with non-linear cost structures, making it scientifically interesting  for algorithm development and computational complexity analysis.

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