
Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing
Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service
Francesco Ferrucci(Author)
Physica (Publisher)
Published on 12. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
LII, 319 pages
978-3-642-43690-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
2013
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
LII, 319 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
563 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-43690-1 (9783642436901)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-33472-6
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Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service
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Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing
Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service
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Content
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.