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Vehicle and Commodity Flow Synchronization

In: Operations Research Proceedings 2008

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  • Jörn Schönberger

    (University of Bremen, Chair of Logistics)

  • Herbert Kopfer

    (University of Bremen, Chair of Logistics)

  • Bernd-Ludwig Wenning

    (University of Bremen, Communication Networks)

  • Henning Rekersbrink

    (University of Bremen, BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH)

Abstract

Summary Network freight ow consolidation organizes the commodity ow with special attention to the minimization of the ow costs but the efficiency of transport resources is not addressed. In contrast, vehicle routing targets primarily the maximization of the efficiency of transport resources but the commodity-related preferences are treated as inferior requirements. This article is about the problem of synchronizing simultaneously the use of vehicles and the ow of commodities in a given transport network. Section 2 introduces the investigated scenario. Section 3 proposes a multi-commodity network ow model for the representation of the ow synchronization problem and Section 4 presents results from numerical experiments. Related and Previous Work. The synchronization of ows along independently determined paths in a network is investigated under the term multi-commodity network ow problem [3]. While most of the contributions aim at minimizing the sum of travel length (or similar objectives) only little work has been published on the assignment of commodity path parts to transport resources with intermediate resource change [1, 2].

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  • Jörn Schönberger & Herbert Kopfer & Bernd-Ludwig Wenning & Henning Rekersbrink, 2009. "Vehicle and Commodity Flow Synchronization," Springer Books, in: Bernhard Fleischmann & Karl-Heinz Borgwardt & Robert Klein & Axel Tuma (ed.), Operations Research Proceedings 2008, chapter 50, pages 307-312, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-00142-0_50
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00142-0_50
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