Disruption management for the electric vehicle routing problem in a geographically flexible network

•Studying how an EV can adjust its speed and/or skip nodes to handle disruptions.•Developing a detailed rescheduling problem in road freight service.•Analytically deriving a number of properties of the optimal policies.•Designing a novel crowd-learning PSO algorithm to solve the large-scale instances.•Conducting extensive computational studies to validate the model and analysis.