mends the use of travel time values for congested periods that are 2.5 times the value of time estimates during uncongested periods (7). Kawamura investigated differences in value of time among operators and trucking industry segments; findings from Kawamura’s research show that freight carriers have a value of time that is several times higher than that of passenger vehicles and that there is ...

A load plan specifies how freight is routed through a linehaul terminal network operated by a less-than-truckload (LTL) motor carrier. Determining the design of the load plan, a problem of service network design, is critical to effective operations of such carriers. Operations research techniques currently support load plan design, and all models in use or proposed today approximate transportat...

Abstract: Choosing between Less Than Truckload (LTL) and Full (FTL) is based on a multicriteria decision because it takes into account aspects such as costs operational efficiency in transportation, handling stock of goods. The aim this article to provide detailed analysis the criteria that comprise LTL FTL transport using methodology considers makers´ preferences. SMARTS method was applied tel...

In Road Transportation, truck transportation is commonly being categorized into Less Than Truckload (LTL), Partial and Full (TL). The standard LTL carried out by means of consolidated freight at optimized depots designation, in the form single or multiple assignment. Nowadays, industry now facing a serious problem scarce labor force environmental concerns. One solution for that platooning. Truc...

Handling freight in a crossdocking terminal is labor-intensive, and therefore costly, because workers must unload, sort, and transfer a wide variety of freight from incoming to outgoing trailers. The eÆciency of workers depends, in large part, on how trailers are assigned to doors around the dock; that is, on its layout. A good layout reduces travel distances without creating congestion, but, u...

A fair cost allocation scheme is critical for forming and sustaining horizontal cooperation that leads to cost reductions. In order to incentivize suppliers to cooperate in freight consolidation, we design a cost-sharing mechanism to solve a cost allocation problem arising in freight consolidation among small suppliers: that is, suppliers whose total demand fits into one truckload. This cost-sh...

In order to improve the operational efficiency of small and mid-sized freight carriers, collaborative transportation planning (CTP) approaches enabling an exchange of customer requests are proposed for horizontal carrier coalitions. Through request exchange carriers can further reduce their costs of fulfilling customer requests compared to the case of isolated planning in which no request is ex...

With the transformation and upgrading of world economy entering a new normal, changes in fields industry consumption have brought business opportunities, there is large space for less-than-truckload (LTL) express market. Considering urban network resource operation status, this study aims to solve optimization problem location selection LTL under common delivery model. To minimize total cost lo...

The field of dynamic vehicle routing and scheduling is growing at a fast pace nowadays, due to many potential applications in courier services, emergency services, truckload and less-than-truckload trucking, and many others. In this paper, a dynamic vehicle routing and scheduling problem with time windows is described where both real-time customer requests and dynamic travel times are considere...