Less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers supply freight transportation services for small parcel shipments. These companies consolidate multiple shipments in vehicles to guarantee the efficiency of the system. A method for LTL carriers is presented to solve the long-haul routing design problem with capacitated distribution centers and time-constrained shipments. The method uses direct, hub-and-spoke, and stopover strategies to allocate shipments in the set of routes. The resolution method is based on a tabu search algorithm. The search process in the solution domain is performed dynamically with four possible perturbations. The results obtained in a set of test problems demonstrate that the restart parameters play a significant role in the efficiency of the algorithm. Implementation of this computational technique in the long-haul operations network of the largest carrier in Spain reduced transportation costs by 6%.


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    Titel :

    Long-Haul Shipment Optimization for Less-Than-Truckload Carriers


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2009




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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