Title:
Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service / by Francesco Ferrucci.
Contributions to Management Science,
Contributions to Management Science,
Author:
Ferrucci, Francesco. author.
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General Notes:
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.- The Proposed Tabu Search Solution Method. -- Computational Results -- Summary and Outlook on Future Work -- Appendix -- References. .
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.
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Physica,
Publication Place:
Berlin, Heidelberg :
ISBN:
9783642334726
Subject:
Economics.
Computer simulation.
Operations research.
Economics/Management Science.
Operation Research/Decision Theory.
Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management.
Sales/Distribution/Call Center/Customer Service.
Simulation and Modeling.
Series:
Contributions to Management Science,
Contributions to Management Science,
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.- The Proposed Tabu Search Solution Method. -- Computational Results -- Summary and Outlook on Future Work -- Appendix -- References. .
Physical Description:
LII, 319 p. 121 illus. online resource.
Electronic Location:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33472-6
Publication Date:
2013.
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