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Title:

COMPUTERIZED VEHICLE ROUTING FOR HOME DELIVERY OPERATIONS

Accession Number:

00485505

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309047196

Abstract:

Vehicle routing models have been widely used for LTL (less than truckload) trucking operations on interurban highways. These models take into consideration various operational as well as contractual constraints and attempt to minimize the total costs (or maximize the total profit, if that is the goal of the operation). To make these models useful for home delivery services, at least two additional capabilities are needed. The first is the ability to locate (or assign coordinates to) any given address in the service area. The second is the ability to accurately estimate the distance between any given pair of points. In other words, estimated distances have to reflect local traffic conditions, such as one-way streets, locations of freeway interchanges, locations of bridges, and so on. In addition to these two abilities, an interactive graphic capability is useful to ease the task of manually refining results. In this paper, the development of such a vehicle-routing model for the home delivery operations of a major trucking company is presented.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1179, Freight Transportation Research. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

Monograph Accession #:

01416530

Authors:

Hsu, J Augustine
Kim, T P
Bott, Kevin

Pagination:

p. 28-32

Publication Date:

1988

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1179
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309047196

Features:

Figures (2) ; References (13) ; Tables (1)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Interactive graphics; Models

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Economics; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jul 31 1989 12:00AM

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