Operational Transportation Planning of Modern Freight Forwarding Companies

Vehicle Routing under Consideration of Subcontracting and Request Exchange

• Author(s): Xin Wang,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 161
• ISBN_10: 3658068698
  ISBN_13: 9783658068691
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Operations Research , Business & Economics / Production & Operations Management , Business & Economics / General , Business & Economics / Management ,

Description:... Modern freight forwarding companies attempt to cooperate with each other to increase their efficiency. Xin Wang studies the new operational transportation planning problems that arise in the context of cooperation in both static and dynamic scenarios. To achieve the cost-savings embedded in cooperation, novel planning approaches that can help forwarders obtaining high-quality solutions are proposed. Computational studies show considerable benefits that can be achieved through cooperation.