DETERMINING COST VS. TIME PARETO-OPTIMAL FRONTIERS IN MULTI-MODAL TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS

This paper provides a framework for choosing modes of transportation (rail, highway, and air) by taking into account the conflicting objectives of minimizing total transportation costs and average shipment times. An efficient algorithm using the operator theory of parametric programming is presented for determining the Pareto-optimal or efficient curve denoting the minimum attainable value for the second objective for differing values of the first objective. The algorithm also provides the optimal routes, modes of transportation, and the corresponding shipping amounts for every efficient point.

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• Authors:
  • Srinivasan, V
  • Thompson, G L
• Publication Date: 1977-2

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 1-19
• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • ISSN: 0041-1655
  • Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Algorithms; Competition; Costs; Freight transportation; Highway transportation; Mathematical models; Mode choice; Motor carriers; Multimodal transportation; Physical distribution; Railroad transportation; Transportation; Transportation modes
• Old TRIS Terms: Cargo transportation
• Subject Areas: Economics; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00167981
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 27 1977 12:00AM