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1 online resource |
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Contributions to management science, 1431-1941 |
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Contributions to management science.
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| Contents |
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 from Past Request Information and Utilizing the Stochastic Knowledge -- The Proposed Tabu Search Solution Method -- Computational Results -- Summary and Outlook on Future Work |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Economics |
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Computer simulation |
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Operations research |
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Economics/Management Science |
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Operation Research/Decision Theory |
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Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management |
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Simulation and Modeling |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Vehicle routing problem.
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Shipment of goods -- Mathematical models
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MATHEMATICS -- Applied.
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MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General.
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Science économique.
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Affaires.
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Shipment of goods -- Mathematical models
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Vehicle routing problem
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| Genre/Form |
dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783642334726 |
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3642334725 |
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