Keyword: transportation: general

Found 517 papers in total
A guided simulated annealing search for solving the pick-up and delivery problem with time windows and capacity constraints
2006,
Routing and scheduling requests with pick-ups and deliveries is still one of the...
The Missouri lottery optimizes its scheduling and routing to improve efficiency and balance
2006,
The Missouri lottery, a profit-driven nonprofit organization, generates annual...
Analysing the primacy of distance in the utilization of health services in the Ahafo-Ano South district, Ghana
2003,
Although the distance factor has been identified as key in the utilization of health...
Impact of transport pricing on quality of life, acceptability, and intentions to reduce car use: An exploratory study in five European countries
2006,
This paper examines how a transport pricing policy aimed to reduce car use may affect...
The fastest itinerary in time-dependent decentralized travel information systems
2006,
A travel information system (TIS) provides customers with information about...
Erratum to: ‘Incorporating transport cost in the lot size and pricing decisions with downward sloping demand’
2006,
We correct our earlier formulation [Abad, P., Aggarwal, V., 2005. Incorporating...
Changing the timing of activities in resolving scheduling conflicts
2006,
Following the growing interest in the characterisation and modelling of activity...
Assessing transport energy consumption in two product supply chains
2006,
The paper addresses the transport activities and associated energy consumption...
Agent-intermediated electronic markets in international freight transportation
2006,
In many industries, agent-intermediated markets are inefficient because information...
Study on multi-depot vehicle scheduling problem with time windows and multi-type vehicle limits and its tabu search algorithm
2005,
Two kinds of techniques are presented to the multi-depots vehicle scheduling problem...
Survey of research in the design and control of automated guided vehicle systems
2006,
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are used for the internal and external transport of...
Adapting the traditional transhipment model to optimize state regional non-emergency medical transportation requirements under conditions of over-constrained routes
2004,
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is the agency responsible for...
Modeling and analyzing multiple station baggage screening security system performance
2005,
In the aftermath of the tragic events of 11 September 2001, numerous changes have been...
Updating paths in time-varying networks given arc weight changes
2005,
Many transportation applications, including applications in intelligent transportation...
Transportation mode selection with positive manufacturing lead time
2005,
In this paper we present a dual supply model taking into account that in many...
A tabu search algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time window and dock capacity constraints
2005,
We consider a vehicle routing problem with time window and dock capacity constraints...
Multi-depot integrated vehicle and crew scheduling
2005,
This paper presents two different models and algorithms for integrated vehicle and...
Criteria for selecting innovative technologies for maritime transhipment facilities
2003,
The significant cargo volumes transferred by sea, in combination with the increased...
Towards collaborative, intermodal hub networks: A case study in the fast moving consumer goods market
2005,
Collaborative hub networks can provide an answer to the need to decrease logistics...
Expanding the revenue management frontier: Optimal air planning in the cruise industry
2002,
Applications of revenue management usually focus on the sale of products to customers....
Waiting strategies for dynamic vehicle routing
2005,
Many real-world vehicle routing problems are dynamic optimization problems, with...
Logistical planning with the help of simulation modeling: A case study
2002,
This article gives an overview of the combined use of object-oriented programming and...
An analysis of the South African fruit logistics infrastructure
2004,
This paper gives an overview of a study that was done on the logistics infrastructure...
Operations Research: An indispensable toolkit for the logistician
2005,
This paper traces the origin of the word logistics, outlines its conceptual evolution,...
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