03459nam 2200589Ia 450 991043806690332120200520144314.03-642-33472-510.1007/978-3-642-33472-6(CKB)2670000000342706(EBL)1082691(OCoLC)836406913(SSID)ssj0000879539(PQKBManifestationID)11487987(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000879539(PQKBWorkID)10851751(PQKB)11642069(DE-He213)978-3-642-33472-6(MiAaPQ)EBC1082691(PPN)169138194(EXLCZ)99267000000034270620130320d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPro-active dynamic vehicle routing real-time control and request-forecasting approaches to improve customer service /Francesco Ferrucci1st ed. 2013.Berlin ;New York Physica-Verlagc20131 online resource (355 p.)Contributions to management science,1431-1941Description based upon print version of record.3-642-43690-0 3-642-33471-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.                            .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.Contributions to Management Science,1431-1941Vehicle routing problemShipment of goodsMathematical modelsVehicle routing problem.Shipment of goodsMathematical models.388.324042Ferrucci Francesco191727MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910438066903321Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing2536700UNINA