Dynamic vehicle routing with anticipation in disaster relief

Title: Dynamic vehicle routing with anticipation in disaster relief
Creator: Wohlgemuth, Sascha; Oloruntoba, Richard; Clausen, Uwe
Relation: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences Vol. 46, Issue 4, p. 261-271
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2012.06.001
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: Pickup and delivery problems (PDP), where locations may both receive and send goods, are an extension of the classical vehicle routing problem. This paper considers the application of a routing and scheduling problem for forwarding agencies handling less-than-truckload freight in disasters. The approach evaluates the benefits of dynamic optimization anticipating varying travel times (i.e., the availability of connections in this case) as well as unknown orders (i.e., the integration of demand regions on short-notice) in the specific environment of emergencies. The objective is to avoid delays and increase equipment utilization. We model a multi-stage mixed integer problem which is able to operate under variable demand and transport conditions.
Subject: disaster planning; disaster logistics; vehicle routing; pickup and delivery; dynamic; varying travel times; discrete optimization; disaster relief
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1337566
Identifier: uon:27873
Identifier: ISSN:0038-0121
Language: eng
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