Cargo consolidation and distribution through a terminals-network : A branch-and-price approach

Less-than-truckload (LTL) is a transport modality that includes many practical variations to convey a number of transportation-requests from the origin locations to their destinations by using the possibility of goodstransshipments on the carrier’s terminals-network. In this way logistics companies...

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Autor principal: Dondo, Rodolfo
Formato: Objeto de conferencia
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/59080
http://44jaiio.sadio.org.ar/sites/default/files/sii101-112.pdf
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Sumario:Less-than-truckload (LTL) is a transport modality that includes many practical variations to convey a number of transportation-requests from the origin locations to their destinations by using the possibility of goodstransshipments on the carrier’s terminals-network. In this way logistics companies are required to consolidate shipments from different suppliers in the outbound vehicles at a terminal of the network. We present a methodology for finding near-optimal solutions to a LTL shipping modality used for cargo consolidation and distribution through a terminals-network. The methodology uses column generation combined with an incomplete branch-and-price procedure.