Truck platooning has been identified as an emerging and promising operational technology with the advantages of fuel consumption savings carbon emissions reductions. We formulate truck routing optimization problem a multi-commodity network flow from transportation scheduling perspective. Based on generated through reduction aerodynamic drag by formation platooning, route each is also set to be ...

40 Advances in Truck Scheduling at a Cross Dock Facility Mihalis M. Golias, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA Georgios K. D. Saharidis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece Stephanie Ivey, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA Hercules E. Haralambides, Center for Maritime Economics &...

During recent years, several companies have introduced small autonomous delivery robots and evidenced their technical applicability in field studies. However, a holistic planning framework for routing utilizing these is still lacking. Current literature focuses mainly on logistical performance of using robots, ignoring real world limitations, does not assess the respective impact total costs. I...

In most manufacturing and distribution systems, semi-finished jobs are transferred from one processing facility to another by transporters such as Automated Guided Vehicles, robots and conveyors, and finished jobs are delivered to warehouses or customers by vehicles such as trucks. This paper investigates two-machine flow shop scheduling problems taking transportation into account. The finished...

Long-haul carriers must comply with various safety rules which are rarely taken into account in models and algorithms for vehicle routing problems. In this paper, we consider the rules on truck driver safety during long-haul trips in North America. The problem under study has two dominant features: a routing component that consists in determining the sequence of customers visited by each vehicl...

In this paper we present the solution to a weekly log-truck scheduling problem (LTSP) integrating the routing and scheduling of trucks where all goods are transported in full truckloads. This problem includes aspects such as pick-up and delivery, multiple products, inventory levels, and lunch breaks. The objective is to minimize the overall transportation cost including wait times, and both emp...

We report on the application of operations research to a very complex scheduling and dispatching problem. Scheduling and dispatching are never easy, but the scheduling of concrete deliveries is particularly difficult for several reasons: (1) concrete is an extremely perishable product—it can solidify in the truck if offloading is delayed by a few hours; (2) customer orders are extremely unpredi...