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Service Network Design

In: Network Design with Applications to Transportation and Logistics

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  • Teodor Gabriel Crainic

    (Université du Québec à Montréal)

  • Mike Hewitt

    (Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago)

Abstract

Service Network Design designates issues, decisions, and network-design models aimed to plan the activities and resources of the supply side of a transportation system, aiming to satisfy demand efficiently, profitably, and within the quality standards agreed upon with the customers generating this demand. Service Network Design is particularly relevant in the context of consolidation-based transportation, an umbrella term for companies and systems which group and transport within the same vehicle several freight loads of different customers, aiming for a profitable balance between economy-of-scale-based costs and high service quality for customers. This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the general Service Network Design methodology, in terms of models, solution methods and utilization, that cuts across application fields, including railroads, less-than-truckload motor carriers, land and water-based intermodal transport, regular and express postal services, and city logistics.

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  • Teodor Gabriel Crainic & Mike Hewitt, 2021. "Service Network Design," Springer Books, in: Teodor Gabriel Crainic & Michel Gendreau & Bernard Gendron (ed.), Network Design with Applications to Transportation and Logistics, chapter 0, pages 347-382, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-64018-7_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64018-7_12
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    1. Taherkhani, Gita & Bilegan, Ioana C. & Crainic, Teodor Gabriel & Gendreau, Michel & Rei, Walter, 2022. "Tactical capacity planning in an integrated multi-stakeholder freight transportation system," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    2. Bilegan, Ioana C. & Crainic, Teodor Gabriel & Wang, Yunfei, 2022. "Scheduled service network design with revenue management considerations and an intermodal barge transportation illustration," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 300(1), pages 164-177.
    3. Wang, Xinxin & Xu, Zeshui & Qin, Yong & Skare, Marinko, 2021. "Service networks for sustainable business: A dynamic evolution analysis over half a century," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 543-557.
    4. Belieres, Simon & Hewitt, Mike & Jozefowiez, Nicolas & Semet, Frédéric, 2022. "Meta partial benders decomposition for the logistics service network design problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 300(2), pages 473-489.
    5. Hewitt, Mike & Lehuédé, Fabien, 2023. "New formulations for the Scheduled Service Network Design Problem," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 172(C), pages 117-133.
    6. Crainic, Teodor Gabriel & Gendron, Bernard & Akhavan Kazemzadeh, Mohammad Rahim, 2022. "A taxonomy of multilayer network design and a survey of transportation and telecommunication applications," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(1), pages 1-13.
    7. Dayarian, Iman & Rocco, Adolfo & Erera, Alan & Savelsbergh, Martin, 2022. "Operations design for high-velocity intra-city package service," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 161(C), pages 150-168.

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