THE LOAD PLANNING PROBLEM OF MOTOR CARRIERS: PROBLEM DESCRIPTION AND A PROPOSED SOLUTION APPROACH
The load planning problem of less-than-truckload motor carriers is the determination of how freight should be routed through the network to minimize costs while maintaining service. The principal issues and tradeoffs raised by the load planning problem are reviewed, and a simple optimization formulation is provided. Given the large size of the problem, a local improvement heuristic is proposed and shown to be effective in reducing costs when tested on the network of a large national carrier. (Author/TRRL)
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Pergamon Press, Incorporated
Headington Hill Hall
Oxford OX30BW, -
Authors:
- Powell, W B
- Scheffi, Y
- Publication Date: 1983-11
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 471-480
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
- Volume: 17A
- Issue Number: 6
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0965-8564
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Commodities; Costs; Economic factors; Economics; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Heuristic methods; Itinerary; Level of service; Mathematical models; Minimization; Motor carriers; Networks; Optimization; Planning; Routing; Savings; Transportation; Travel time; Trip length
- Uncontrolled Terms: Minimum; Optimum; Transportation networks
- ITRD Terms: 224: Cost; 263: Economics of transport; 283: Freight; 741: Goods traffic; 699: Itinerary; 697: Journey time; 653: Level of service; 6473: Mathematical model; 9046: Minimum; 1054: Network (traffic); 143: Planning
- Subject Areas: Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I71: Traffic Theory; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00382147
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 30 1984 12:00AM