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Operational Transportation Planning of Modern Freight Forwarding Companies

Part of the Produktion und Logistik Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-06869-1

ISBN: 978-3-658-06868-4

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden - Springer Journals

Aug 15, 2014

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Wang, Xin

Pages: 1 –5

[The increasing pressure on modern freight forwarding companies to improve profitability as a result of ever-changing conditions and fierce competition on the transportation market has strongly influenced their fleet management and transportation planning strategies. In order to utilize...
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Chapter 2Vehicle Routing

Wang, Xin

Pages: 7 –23

[In Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, the basic decision problems in the operational transportation planning of freight forwarding companies are introduced. If own disposable vehicles are used for the request fulfillment, the forwarders have to solve the vehicle routing and scheduling problems. The...
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Chapter 3Freight Consolidation

Wang, Xin

Pages: 25 –41

[In this chapter, the second type of the basic decision problems in the operational transportation planning of freight forwarding companies is discussed. Besides the possibility of disposing vehicles for the fulfillment of customer requests, forwarders can also transfer some requests to common...
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Chapter 4From Cherry-Picking to Integrated Operational Transportation Planning

Wang, Xin

Pages: 43 –56

[The increasing pressure on modern freight forwarding companies to improve profitability have strongly affected their fleet management and transportation planning strategies for the fulfillment of customer transportation requests. In order to reduce the overall operational costs and to maintain a...
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Chapter 5Solution approaches for the integrated operational transportation planning problem

Wang, Xin

Pages: 57 –70

[The IOTPP introduced in Chapter 4 for LTL pickup and delivery requests with time windows extends the classical PDPTW by different modes of subcontracting and represents a complicated combinatorial optimization problem. Specifically, the heterogeneity of the vehicles in the IOTPP attributes...
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Chapter 6Collaborative transportation planning

Wang, Xin

Pages: 71 –81

[Freight forwarders are confronted with increasing pressures to improve profitability, while it is diffcult to further reduce operational costs. This problem is even more serious for those who already have almost exhausted their internal potential by processing optimization and applying new...
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Chapter 7A route-based request exchange mechanism for the collaborative transportation planning

Wang, Xin

Pages: 83 –99

[In this chapter, the route-based request exchange mechanism proposed by Wang and Kopfer (2014) to solve the collaborative routing problem of horizontal coalitions of independent freight forwarding companies introduced in the last chapter is described. In the scenario studied in this chapter,...
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Chapter 8Collaborative integrated operational transportation planning

Wang, Xin

Pages: 101 –114

[Cooperation in transportation logistics offers freight forwarding companies new possibilities to increase the flexibility of their capacity and to reduce their operational costs. Such cooperation can happen between freight forwarders with subcontractors in vertical cooperation which is discussed...
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Chapter 9Dynamic collaborative transportation planning

Wang, Xin

Pages: 115 –126

[Through using efficient collaborative planning approaches and exchanging requests with other coalition members, freight forwarding companies can reduce their operational costs to a great extent as shown in the previous chapters in the static planning scenarios. In this chapter, using CTP for...
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Chapter 10Computational study on the dynamic collaborative transportation planning

Wang, Xin

Pages: 127 –145

[In this chapter, a comprehensive computational study including several tests is conducted to obtain some insights into the dynamic CTP. Specifically, the tests are designed to answer the following three questions: Firstly, how much cost-saving potential can be realized by using the approaches...

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