This chapter deals with pre-and end-haulage by road of containers handled by an inland intermodal barge terminal. Pre-and end-haulage by road represent an operational planning problem in intermodal freight transport. The efficiency of the road leg influences the competitive position of intermodal freight transport. A deterministic annealing algorithm is proposed to find near-optimal solutions with low computational effort. The algorithm is applied both as a post-optimizer and as an independent algorithm. Parameter settings are analysed with a fractional factorial design. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness of the deterministic annealing algorithm with respect to different problem characteristics and quality of the initial solution.
Container Drayage Operations at Intermodal Terminals: A Deterministic Annealing Approach
Atlantis Computat.Intelligence Syst.
2012-12-12
14 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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