Article ID: | iaor20132073 |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 457 |
End Page Number: | 478 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
Journal: | OR Spectrum |
Authors: | Caris An, Braekers Kris, Janssens Gerrit |
Keywords: | vehicle routing & scheduling, combinatorial optimization, optimization: simulated annealing |
Efficiently planning drayage operations is an important task for transportation companies since these operations constitute a large part of the cost of an intermodal transport. In this paper, a full truckload vehicle routing problem for transporting loaded and empty containers in drayage operations is studied. For empty container transports, either the origin or the destination is not predefined. The problem is formulated as an asymmetric multiple vehicle Travelling Salesman Problem with Time Windows (