Highlights Stopover shipment strategy increases vehicle load factor of LTL carriers. Ellipse as a locus of points with the same direct and stopover shipment cost. Origin–destination proximity and marginal cost as criteria to choose shipment strategy. Probabilistic methodology highly improves the computational time of metaheuristics.
Abstract This paper presents a methodology to identify when freight consolidation strategies are cost-efficient in the less-than-truckload carriers operations. Shipments are assigned based on proximity and cost criteria to build an initial long-haul shipment solution. This initial solution is later improved by the implementation of Tabu Search algorithm. The proximity criterion takes into account the spatial distribution of shipments loads among centers. The results show that the proposed methodology may reduce the transportation cost by 20% compared to the solution of those heuristics only considering cost criterion.
Stopover and hub-and-spoke shipment strategies in less-than-truckload carriers
2015-02-07
14 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Stopover and hub-and-spoke shipment strategies in less-than-truckload carriers
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