Xin Wang

Operational Transportation Planning of Modern Freight Forwarding Companies

Vehicle Routing under Consideration of Subcontracting and Request Exchange

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Modern freight forwarding companies attempt to cooperate with each other to increase their efficiency. Xin Wang studies the new operational transportation planning problems that arise in the context of cooperation in both static and dynamic scenarios. To achieve the cost-savings embedded in cooperation, novel planning approaches that can help forwarders obtaining high-quality solutions are proposed. Computational studies show considerable benefits that can be achieved through cooperation.

Produktdetails

• Produktion und Logistik
• Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden / Springer Gabler / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86377671, 978-3-658-06868-4
• 2015
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9783658068684
• ISBN-10: 365806868X
• Artikelnr.: 41175120

Autorenporträt

Dr. Xin Wang wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Kopfer at the Chair of Logistics at the University of Bremen.

Inhaltsangabe

Integrated Operational Transportation Planning Considering Subcontracting.- Distributed Decision-Making for Collaborative Transportation Planning of Horizontal Coalitions of Forwarders.- Rolling Horizon Planning for Dynamic Collaborative Vehicle Routing.