David Wolfinger, Fabien Tricoire, Karl F. Doerner,
"A matheuristic for a multimodal long haul routing problem"
, in EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, Springer, Seite(n) 397 - 433, 2019, ISSN: 2192-4384
Original Titel:
A matheuristic for a multimodal long haul routing problem
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
We address a planning problem faced by logistics service providers who transport freight over long distances. Given a set of transportation requests, where the origin and the destination of each request are located far apart from each other, a logistics service provider must find feasible vehicle routes to fulfil those requests at minimum cost. When transporting freight over long distances, multimodal transportation provides a viable alternative to traditional unimodal road transportation. We introduce this new problem, which we call the multimodal long haul routing problem (MMLHRP), and present a mathematical formulation for it. Furthermore, we propose a matheuristic, using iterated local search within a column generation framework, for solving the MMLHRP. Results show that large cost savings can be achieved through multimodal transportation compared to unimodal road transportation.
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