Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing
ISBN:
978-3-642-43690-1
Auflage:
2013
Verlag:
Springer Berlin
Land des Verlags:
Deutschland
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.04.2015
Reihe:
Contributions to Management Science
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
319
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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.
