Multi-objective Management in Freight Logistics Increasing Capacity, Service Level and Safety with Optimization Algorithms /

• Main Authors: Caramia, Massimiliano (Author), Dell´Olmo, Paolo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Transportation.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Operations Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

The complexity of modern supply chains requires decision makers in logistics to work with a set of efficient (Pareto optimal) solutions, mainly to catch different economic aspects for which one optimal solution related to a single objective function is not able to capture entirely. Motivated by this...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Multi-objective Optimization
• Maritime Freight Logistics
• Hazardous Material Transportation Problems
• Central Business District Freight Logistic
• Heterogeneous Staff Scheduling in Logistic Platforms
• Appendix A: AMPL Code: The Container Allocation Problem
• Appendix B: AMPL Code: The Inspection Scheduling Problem
• Appendix C: Code in the C Language: The Iterative Penalty Method Algorithm
• Appendix D: Code in the C Language: The P-Dispersion Algorithm.