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A ship-truck intermodal transportation problem

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  • Davide Infante

    (Departimento di Economia e Statistica, Università Della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy)

  • Giuseppe Paletta

    (Departimento di Economia e Statistica, Università Della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy)

  • Francesca Vocaturo

    (Departimento di Economia e Statistica, Università Della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy)

Abstract

This article focuses on an intermodal freight transport service in which containers represent the moved loading units. In particular, it deals with the advantages of combining sea and road transportation – sea for transferring large quantities over long distances, road for collecting and distributing over short or medium distances. With a view to minimizing the total cost of the service, we formulate a ship-truck intermodal transportation problem as a Travelling Purchaser Problem (TPP), in this way broadening the real-world applications field of the TPP. To tackle this problem, a heuristic algorithm is presented and experimentally tested. Computational results indicate that the algorithm is very efficient on a set of benchmark instances, quickly achieving optimal or near-optimal solutions. Maritime Economics & Logistics (2009) 11, 247–259. doi:10.1057/mel.2009.6

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  • Davide Infante & Giuseppe Paletta & Francesca Vocaturo, 2009. "A ship-truck intermodal transportation problem," Maritime Economics & Logistics, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), vol. 11(3), pages 247-259, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:marecl:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:247-259
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    1. Lam, Jasmine Siu Lee & Gu, Yimiao, 2016. "A market-oriented approach for intermodal network optimisation meeting cost, time and environmental requirements," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 171(P2), pages 266-274.
    2. Archetti, Claudia & Bertazzi, Luca & Laganà, Demetrio & Vocaturo, Francesca, 2017. "The Undirected Capacitated General Routing Problem with Profits," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 257(3), pages 822-833.
    3. Manerba, Daniele & Mansini, Renata & Riera-Ledesma, Jorge, 2017. "The Traveling Purchaser Problem and its variants," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 259(1), pages 1-18.
    4. Archetti, Claudia & Peirano, Lorenzo & Speranza, M. Grazia, 2022. "Optimization in multimodal freight transportation problems: A Survey," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 299(1), pages 1-20.
    5. Rajkovic Radoslav & Zrnic Nenad & Stakic Đorđe & Mahnic Borut, 2015. "The Costs of Container Transport Flow Between Far East and Serbia Using Different Liner Shipping Services," Logistics, Supply Chain, Sustainability and Global Challenges, Sciendo, vol. 6(1), pages 34-40, November.
    6. Fan Bu & Heather Nachtmann, 2023. "Literature review and comparative analysis of inland waterways transport: “Container on Barge”," Maritime Economics & Logistics, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), vol. 25(1), pages 140-173, March.

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