Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing - Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)

This book deals with transportation processes denoted as the Real-time Distribution of Perishable Goods (RDOPG). The book presents three contributions that are made to the field of transportation. First, a model considering the minimization of customer inconvenience is formulated. Second, a pro-active real-time control approach is proposed. Stochastic knowledge is generated from past request information by a new forecasting approach and is used in the pro-active approach to guide vehicles to request-likely areas before real requests arrive there. Various computational results are presented to show that in many cases the pro-active approach is able to achieve significantly improved results. Moreover, a measure for determining the structural quality of request data sets is also proposed. The third contribution of this book is a method that is presented for considering driver inconvenience aspects which arise from vehicle en-route diversion activities. Specifically, this method makes it possible to restrict the number of performed vehicle en-route diversion activities.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Contributions to Management Science
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Francesco Ferrucci
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	319
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-33471-9
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Computer modelling & simulation Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Operational research Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Sales & marketing > General
LSN:	3-642-33471-7
Barcode:	9783642334719

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