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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Francesco FerrucciPublisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Edition: 2013 ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 6.801kg ISBN: 9783642334719ISBN 10: 3642334717 Pages: 319 Publication Date: 16 March 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 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. ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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