Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing

Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service

Francesco Ferrucci (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

LII, 319 Seiten

2013
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-33471-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Contributions to Management Science
• Zusatzinfo: LII, 319 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 719 g
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: Customer service • dynamic vehicle routing • Perishable Goods • Request Data Quality • Request Forecasting • Stochastic Knowledge
• ISBN-10: 3-642-33471-7 / 3642334717
• ISBN-13: 978-3-642-33471-9 / 9783642334719
• Zustand: Neuware