Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service /

• Main Author: Ferrucci, Francesco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Physica, 2013.
• Series: Contributions to Management Science,
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Sales management.; Computer simulation.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Management.; Sales/Distribution.; Simulation and Modeling.

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-acti...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Introduction to Tour Planning: Vehicle Routing and Related Problems
• The Considered RDOPG Applications
• Review of the Literature Related to the Considered RDOPG Applications
• A New Deterministic Real-Time Control Approach for RDOPG Applications.- A New Forecasting Approach for Generating Stochastic Knowledge.- The Proposed Tabu Search Solution Method.
• Computational Results
• Summary and Outlook on Future Work
• Appendix
• References.                            .