|
|||||
|
|
Stopover and hub-and-spoke shipment strategies in less-than-truckload carriers |
|
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia;2. School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia;1. IEMath-GR, Universidad de Granada, Spain;2. Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics & Business, Universidad de Granada, Spain;3. Department of Statistics & Operational Research, Universidad de Murcia, Spain;1. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States;2. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States |
| Abstract: | This paper presents a methodology to identify when freight consolidation strategies are cost-efficient in the less-than-truckload carriers operations. Shipments are assigned based on proximity and cost criteria to build an initial long-haul shipment solution. This initial solution is later improved by the implementation of Tabu Search algorithm. The proximity criterion takes into account the spatial distribution of shipments loads among centers. The results show that the proposed methodology may reduce the transportation cost by 20% compared to the solution of those heuristics only considering cost criterion. |
| Keywords: | Stopover Long-haul shipments Less-than-truckload carriers Hub-and-spoke systems |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ | |