The freight routing problem of time-definite freight delivery common carriers

The freight routing problem of time-definite common carriers is to minimize the sum of handling and transportation costs, while meeting service commitments and operational restrictions. There are two types of operational restrictions, capacity and directed in-tree rooted at each destination. Directe...

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Published in:Transportation research. Part B: methodological Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 525 - 547
Main Author: Lin, Cheng-Chang
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Abstract The freight routing problem of time-definite common carriers is to minimize the sum of handling and transportation costs, while meeting service commitments and operational restrictions. There are two types of operational restrictions, capacity and directed in-tree rooted at each destination. Directed in-tree implicitly implies that there is a singular path for each origin–destination pair. The routing problem is an integrality constrained multi-commodity problem with side constraints. In this research, we study two approaches, the Lagrangian relaxation (LR) and implicit enumeration algorithm with ε-optimality (IE- ε). We use the third largest time-definite freight delivery common carrier in Taiwan for our numerical test. The result shows that the IE- ε outperforms the LR, both quantitatively and qualitatively. In addition, two major shortcomings of the LR approach are shown: it may fail to find any feasible solutions even though they exist, and it cannot determine whether the feasible set is empty or not.
AbstractList The freight routing problem of time-definite common carriers is to minimize the sum of handling and transportation costs, while meeting service commitments and operational restrictions. There are two types of operational restrictions, capacity and directed in-tree rooted at each destination. Directed in-tree implicitly implies that there is a singular path for each origin-destination pair. The routing problem is an integrality constrained multi-commodity problem with side constraints. In this research, we study two approaches, the Lagrangian relaxation (LR) and implicit enumeration algorithm with [var epsilon]-optimality (IE-[var epsilon]). We use the third largest time-definite freight delivery common carrier in Taiwan for our numerical test. The result shows that the IE-[var epsilon] outperforms the LR, both quantitatively and qualitatively. In addition, two major shortcomings of the LR approach are shown: it may fail to find any feasible solutions even though they exist, and it cannot determine whether the feasible set is empty or not.
The freight routing problem of time-definite common carriers is to minimize the sum of handling and transportation costs, while meeting service commitments and operational restrictions. There are two types of operational restrictions, capacity and directed in-tree rooted at each destination. Directed in-tree implicitly implies that there is a singular path for each origin–destination pair. The routing problem is an integrality constrained multi-commodity problem with side constraints. In this research, we study two approaches, the Lagrangian relaxation (LR) and implicit enumeration algorithm with ε-optimality (IE- ε). We use the third largest time-definite freight delivery common carrier in Taiwan for our numerical test. The result shows that the IE- ε outperforms the LR, both quantitatively and qualitatively. In addition, two major shortcomings of the LR approach are shown: it may fail to find any feasible solutions even though they exist, and it cannot determine whether the feasible set is empty or not.
Author Lin, Cheng-Chang
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Time-definite freight delivery industry
Lagrangian relaxation
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Road transportation
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Implicit enumeration method
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Routing
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Lagrangian relaxation
Road transportation and traffic
Time-definite freight delivery industry
Transportation planning, management and economics
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