Integration of Information and Optimization Models for Routing in City Logistics

• Main Author: Ehmke, Jan Fabian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 177
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Data mining.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Regional/Spatial Science.

As urban congestion continues to be an ever increasing problem, routing in these settings has become an important area of operations research. This monograph provides cutting-edge research, utilizing the recent advances in technology, to quantify the value of dynamic, time-dependent information for...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• City Logistics
• Attended Home Delivery
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• Analysis of Floating Car Data
• Provision of Distance Matrices
• Evaluation of Information Models
• Routing in City Logistics
• Evaluation of Optimization Models
• Conclusions and Outlook.