DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING FOR COMMERCIAL FLEET OPERATIONS USING REAL-TIME INFORMATION

The application of intelligent transportation system technologies to freight mobility requires dynamic decision-making techniques for commercial fleet operations, using real-time information. Recognizing the productivity-enhancing operational changes possible using real-time information about vehicle locations and demands coupled with constant communication between dispatchers and drivers, a general carrier fleet management system is described. The system features dynamic dispatching, load acceptance, and pricing strategies. A simulation framework is developed to evaluate the performance of alternative load acceptance and assignment strategies using real-time information. Real-time decision making for fleet operations involves balancing a complicated set of often conflicting objectives. The simulation framework provides a means for exploring the tradeoffs between these objectives. Results suggest that reductions in cost and improvements in service quality should result from the use of dynamic dispatching (assignment) strategies in addition to traditional planning tools. These results and the overall simulation framework are discussed.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.3141/1537-13
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1537, Intelligent Transportation Systems: Deployment and User Needs.
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  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Regan, A C
  • Mahmassani, H S
  • Jaillet, P
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 91-97
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1537
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Bearing capacity; Commercial vehicle operations; Cost control; Decision making; Dispatching; Fleet management; Improvements; Information management; Information, data, and knowledge; Intelligent transportation systems; Level of service; Pricing; Real time control; Real time data processing; Simulation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost reduction; Load acceptance
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00730257
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309059119
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 17 1997 12:00AM