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Vehicle Routing under Consideration of Transhipment in Horizontal Coalitions of Freight Carriers
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Vornhusen, Benedikt Wang, Xin Kopfer, Herbert |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Abstract In order to reduce operational costs related to transportation activities in road haulage, small and medium-sized freight carriers can establish horizontal coalitions and share their resources. Through exchange of customer requests with other members within the coalition, carriers can improve the operational efficiency of their transportation processes. In this paper, transhipment is integrated into the conventional pickup and delivery problem in the collaborative context. Specifically, vehicles involved in transferring the same request are synchronized at the transhipment points. A mixed-integer programming model is proposed for this problem. Based on this model the benefits of transhipment are analysed. Computational results show considerable cost-savings enabled by transhipment in the operational planning of carrier coalitions. |
| Starting Page | 117 |
| Ending Page | 122 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 19 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82740664.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2014.05.008 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |