Operational Transportation Planning of Modern Freight Forwarding Companies: Vehicle Routing under Consideration of Subcontracting and Request Exchange

by Xin Wang

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783658068684
Publisher:	Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Publication date:	08/15/2014
Series:	Produktion und Logistik
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	161
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Dr. Xin Wang wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Kopfer at the Chair of Logistics at the University of Bremen.

Table of Contents

Integrated Operational Transportation Planning Considering Subcontracting.- Distributed Decision-Making for Collaborative Transportation Planning of Horizontal Coalitions of Forwarders.- Rolling Horizon Planning for Dynamic Collaborative Vehicle Routing.