Information, Volume 11, Issue 8
2020 August - 30 articles
Cover Story: Current intermodal freight transport is not as efficient as it could be. Often, an empty container needs to be transported from the empty container depot to the shipper, and, conversely, an empty container needs to be transported from the receiver to the empty container depot. These empty movements decrease the freight carrier’s profit, as well as add negative externalities to the environment. To this end, a binary integer-linear programming model is developed to determine each freight carrier’s optimal schedule while minimizing its operating cost. The model ensures that the cost for each carrier with collaboration is less than or equal to its cost without collaboration. It also ensures that average savings from the collaboration are shared equally among all participating carriers. View this paper - Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
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