This book provides a general and broad coverage of concepts, models, and solution methodologies available for freight transportation. It includes preliminaries, such as mathematical modeling and simulation, but does not require prior knowledge of these techniques. Case studies or practical examples are featured in each chapter to illustrate appl
This book provides a general and broad coverage of concepts, models, and solution methodologies available for freight transportation. It includes preliminaries, such as mathematical modeling and simulation, but does not require prior knowledge of these techniques. Case studies or practical examples are featured in each chapter to illustrate appl
Tolga Bektas is Professor of Logistics Management at the University of Southampton. He has taken part in a number of practical logistics projects, in collaboration with industrial partners such as Canadian National Railway (Canada) and Rail Safety and Standards Board (UK).
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Concepts. Location in Networks. Hub Location. Facility Location. Transportation and Service Networks. Multicommodity Network Design. Service Network Design. Short-Haul Freight Transportation. Routing Problems. Traveling Salesman Problems. Vehicle Routing Problems. Integrated Routing Problems. Location-Routing, Inventory-Routing and Production-Routing. Green Freight Distribution. Collaboration in Freight Distribution. Cooperative Game Theory. Methodology.