Article ID: | iaor200973416 |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 363 |
End Page Number: | 377 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2009 |
Journal: | 4OR |
Authors: | Lecluyse C, Woensel T, Peremans H |
Keywords: | transportation: general |
Assigning and scheduling vehicle routes in a stochastic time-dependent environment is a crucial management problem. The assumption that in a real-life environment everything goes according to an a priori determined static schedule is unrealistic. Our methodology builds on earlier work in which the traffic congestion is captured in an analytical way using queueing theory. The congestion is then applied to the