
Routing shipments efficiently on less-than-truckload trucking networks represents an important subproblem of the general network design problem that arises when designing a service network. The objective of the LTL shipment routing problem is to minimize the total transportation and handling costs subject to two key constraints: (i) service between two terminals must always satisfy a given minimum frequency (measured in trailers per week) and (ii) the paths from all origins into a destination should form a tree. This second constraint reflects a practical limitation on the types of instructions that can be implemented in the field. A solution approach is developed using a shortest path based formulation with additional routing constraints imposed to refine the routing in response to minimum frequency constraints. A local improvement heuristic is presented which manipulates the routing constraints. A separate set of primal-dual algorithms are also developed which provide both upper and lower bounds. Numerical experiments are presented to evaluate the effectiveness of both the local improvement heuristic and the primal-dual algorithms.
Transportation, logistics and supply chain management, Deterministic network models in operations research, network design, trucking networks, local improvement heuristic, Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming, primal-dual algorithms, shipment routing
Transportation, logistics and supply chain management, Deterministic network models in operations research, network design, trucking networks, local improvement heuristic, Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming, primal-dual algorithms, shipment routing
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