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Shipment Routing Algorithms with Tree Constraints

Shipment routing algorithms with tree constraints
Authors: Warren B. Powell; Ioannis A. Koskosidis;

Shipment Routing Algorithms with Tree Constraints

Abstract

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.

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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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