Operational Transportation Planning of Modern Freight Forwarding Companies Vehicle Routing under Consideration of Subcontracting and Request Exchange /

• Main Author: Wang, Xin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2015.
• Series: Produktion und Logistik
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Management.

Modern freight forwarding companies attempt to cooperate with each other to increase their efficiency. Xin Wang studies the new operational transportation planning problems that arise in the context of cooperation in both static and dynamic scenarios. To achieve the cost-savings embedded in cooperat...

Table of Contents:

• Integrated Operational Transportation Planning Considering Subcontracting
• Distributed Decision-Making for Collaborative Transportation Planning of Horizontal Coalitions of Forwarders
• Rolling Horizon Planning for Dynamic Collaborative Vehicle Routing.