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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910438066903321
• Autore: Ferrucci Francesco
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Physica, , 2013
• ISBN: 3-642-33472-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Collana: Contributions to Management Science, , 1431-1941
• Disciplina: 388.324042
• Soggetti: Operations research; Decision making; Production management; Sales management; Computer simulation; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Operations Management; Sales/Distribution; Simulation and Modeling
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. .
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.