Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing
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.
| Autor: | Ferrucci, Francesco |
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| ISBN: | 9783642334719 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 16.03.2013 |
| Untertitel: | Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service |
| Schlagworte: | B Business and Management Computer modelling & simulation Computer simulation Decision Making Management decision making Management of specific areas Management science Operations Management Operations Research Operations Research/Decision Theory Operations Research and Decision Theory Production management Sales & marketing Sales/Distribution Sales and Distribution Simulation and Modeling computer science sales management |