| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 164 pages) : illustrations |
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GOR-publications |
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GOR-publications.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Transport in Freight Carrier Networks -- 1.1 Recent Trends in Freight Transportation -- 1.2 Carrier Transport Networks -- 1.3 Network Design, Configuration and Deployment -- 1.4 Distribution and Collection Planning -- 1.5 Aims of this Book and Used Methods -- 2 Operational Freight Transport Planning -- 2.1 Decision Problems -- 2.2 Hierarchical and Simultaneous Planning -- 2.3 Generic Models for Simultaneous Problem -- 2.4 Conclusions -- 3 Pickup and Delivery Selection Problems -- 3.1 Problems with Pickup and Delivery Requests -- 3.2 Pickup and Delivery Paths and Schedules -- 3.3 Optimization Problem -- 3.4 Problem Variants -- 3.5 Test Case Generation -- 3.6 Conclusions -- 4 Memetic Algorithms -- 4.1 Algorithmic Solving of Problems with PD-Requests -- 4.2 Evolutionary Algorithms -- 4.3 Genetic Algorithms -- 4.4 Repairing and Improving the Genetic Code -- 4.5 Conclusions -- 5 Memetic Algorithm Vehicle Routing -- 5.1 Genetic Sequencing -- 5.2 Genetic Clustering -- 5.3 Combined Genetic Sequencing and Clustering -- 5.4 Advanced MA-Approaches: The State-of-the-Art -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 Memetic Search for Optimal PD-Schedules -- 6.1 Permutation-Controlled Schedule Construction -- 6.2 Representation of a PD-Schedule -- 6.3 Configuration of the Memetic Algorithm -- 6.4 Computational Experiments -- 6.5 Conclusions -- 7 Coping with Compulsory Requests -- 7.1 Limits of Fitness Penalization -- 7.2 A Double-Ranking Approach -- 7.3 Converging-Constraint Approach -- 7.4 Assessing QC-MA and ACC-MA: Numerical Results -- 7.5 Conclusions -- 8 Request Selection and Collaborative Planning -- 8.1 The Portfolio Re-composition Problem -- 8.2 Configuration of the Groupage System -- 8.3 Computational Experiments -- 8.4 Conclusions -- 9 Conclusions -- 9.1 Understanding Freight Carrier Decision Problems -- 9.2 Model Building -- 9.3 Methodological Enhancements -- References |
| Summary |
The modern freight carrier business requires a sophisticated automatic decision support in order to ensure the efficiency and reliability and therefore the survival of transport service providers. This book addresses these challenges and provides generic decision models for the short-term operations planning as well as advanced metaheuristics to obtain efficient operation plans. After a thorough analysis of the operations planning in the freight carrier business, decision models are derived. Their suitability is proven within a large number of numerical experiments, in which a new class of hybrid genetic search approaches demonstrate their appropriateness |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Freight and freightage -- Planning -- Mathematical models
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation.
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TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation.
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Freight and freightage -- Planning -- Mathematical models.
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Affaires.
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Science économique.
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Economie de l'entreprise.
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Economics
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Operations research
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Thermodynamics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783540263418 |
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3540263411 |
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3540253181 |
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9783540253181 |
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9786610459056 |
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6610459053 |
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1280459050 |
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9781280459054 |
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