Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing
Ferrucci, Francesco.
Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service / [electronic resource] : by Francesco Ferrucci. - LII, 319 p. online resource. - Contributions to Management Science, 1431-1941 . - Contributions to Management Science, .
Introduction -- Introduction to Tour Planning: Vehicle Routing and Related Problems -- The Considered RDOPG Applications -- Review of the Literature Related to the Considered RDOPG Applications -- A New Deterministic Real-Time Control Approach for RDOPG Applications.- A New Forecasting Approach for Generating Stochastic Knowledge.- The Proposed Tabu Search Solution Method. -- Computational Results -- Summary and Outlook on Future Work -- Appendix -- References. .
This book deals with transportation processes denoted as the Real-time Distribution of Perishable Goods (RDOPG). The book presents three contributions that are made to the field of transportation. First, a model considering the minimization of customer inconvenience is formulated. Second, a pro-active real-time control approach is proposed. Stochastic knowledge is generated from past request information by a new forecasting approach and is used in the pro-active approach to guide vehicles to request-likely areas before real requests arrive there. Various computational results are presented to show that in many cases the pro-active approach is able to achieve significantly improved results. Moreover, a measure for determining the structural quality of request data sets is also proposed. The third contribution of this book is a method that is presented for considering driver inconvenience aspects which arise from vehicle en-route diversion activities. Specifically, this method makes it possible to restrict the number of performed vehicle en-route diversion activities.
9783642334726
10.1007/978-3-642-33472-6 doi
Business.
Production management.
Operations research.
Decision making.
Sales management.
Computer simulation.
Business and Management.
Operation Research/Decision Theory.
Operations Management.
Sales/Distribution.
Simulation and Modeling.
HD30.23
658.40301
Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service / [electronic resource] : by Francesco Ferrucci. - LII, 319 p. online resource. - Contributions to Management Science, 1431-1941 . - Contributions to Management Science, .
Introduction -- Introduction to Tour Planning: Vehicle Routing and Related Problems -- The Considered RDOPG Applications -- Review of the Literature Related to the Considered RDOPG Applications -- A New Deterministic Real-Time Control Approach for RDOPG Applications.- A New Forecasting Approach for Generating Stochastic Knowledge.- The Proposed Tabu Search Solution Method. -- Computational Results -- Summary and Outlook on Future Work -- Appendix -- References. .
This book deals with transportation processes denoted as the Real-time Distribution of Perishable Goods (RDOPG). The book presents three contributions that are made to the field of transportation. First, a model considering the minimization of customer inconvenience is formulated. Second, a pro-active real-time control approach is proposed. Stochastic knowledge is generated from past request information by a new forecasting approach and is used in the pro-active approach to guide vehicles to request-likely areas before real requests arrive there. Various computational results are presented to show that in many cases the pro-active approach is able to achieve significantly improved results. Moreover, a measure for determining the structural quality of request data sets is also proposed. The third contribution of this book is a method that is presented for considering driver inconvenience aspects which arise from vehicle en-route diversion activities. Specifically, this method makes it possible to restrict the number of performed vehicle en-route diversion activities.
9783642334726
10.1007/978-3-642-33472-6 doi
Business.
Production management.
Operations research.
Decision making.
Sales management.
Computer simulation.
Business and Management.
Operation Research/Decision Theory.
Operations Management.
Sales/Distribution.
Simulation and Modeling.
HD30.23
658.40301