کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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482875 | 1446222 | 2006 | 11 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
This paper focuses on a fleet management problem that arises in container trucking industry. From the container transportation company perspective, the present and future operating costs to minimize can be divided in three components: the routing costs, the resource (i.e., driver and truck) assignment costs and the container repositioning costs (i.e., the costs of restoring a given container fleet distribution over the serviced territory, as requested by the shippers that own the containers).This real-world problem has been modeled as an integer programming problem. The proposed solution approach is based on the decomposition of this problem in three simpler sub-problems associated to each of the costs considered above.Numerical experiments on randomly generated instances, as well as on a real-world data set of an Italian container trucking company, are presented.
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research - Volume 171, Issue 3, 16 June 2006, Pages 776–786