Medium-Term Pricing and Operations Planning in Intermodal Transportation

This paper describes a model developed for medium term planning in the intermodal context that jointly considers operations planning and marketing decisions, explicitly guaranteeing service constraints and maximizing profit. It introduces and explores a new approach in the pricing subproblem that enables modeling of the pricing problem as a concave maximizing problem. In the operations-planning subproblem, the paper considers freight routing, train routing, and train assignment simultaneously.The submodels introduced have several distinct differences from existing models. The combined pricing and operations-planning problem is formulated as a mathematical programming problem with concave objective function, linear constraints, and binary variables. The solution procedure provides the global optimal solution on problems of industrial size.

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• Authors:
  • Tayur, S
  • Li, Li
  • 0000-0002-7580-3559
• Publication Date: 2005-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 73-86
• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Volume: 39
  • 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: Freight transportation; Intermodal transportation; Operations; Planning; Pricing; Railroad transportation; Trucking
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01000918
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 15 2005 12:35PM