Bektas Freight Transport and Distribution

Concepts and Optimisation Models
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4822-5874-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 285 Seiten

This book serves as a primer on freight transportation and logistics, providing a general and broad coverage of concepts, mathematical models and methodologies available for freight transportation planning at strategic, tactical and operational levels. It is aimed at graduate students, and is also a reference book for practitioners in the field.

The book includes preliminaries, such as mathematical modeling and optimisation algorithms. The book also features case studies and practical real-life examples to illustrate applications of the concepts and models covered, and to encourage a hands-on and a practical approach. The author has taught and published extensively in the field and draw on state-of-the-art scientific research. He has also been part of a number of practical research projects, which underpin the real life examples in the book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bektas, Tolga

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensforschung
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Verkehrsingenieurwesen, Verkehrsplanung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Verkehrstechnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Concepts. Location in Networks. Hub Location. Facility Location. Transportation and Service Networks. Multicommodity Network Design. Service Network Design. Short-Haul Freight Transportation. Routing Problems. Traveling Salesman Problems. Vehicle Routing Problems. Integrated Routing Problems. Location-Routing, Inventory-Routing and Production-Routing. Green Freight Distribution. Collaboration in Freight Distribution. Cooperative Game Theory. Methodology.