Freight Transport and Distribution: Concepts and Optimisation Models

Description

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.

Table of Contents

1. Concepts
2. Location in Networks
3. Hub Location
4. Facility Location
5. Transportation and Service Networks
6. Multicommodity Network Design
7. Service Network Design
8. Short-Haul Freight Transportation
9. Routing Problems
10. Traveling Salesman Problems
11. Vehicle Routing Problems
12. Integrated Routing Problems
13. Location-Routing, Inventory-Routing and Production-Routing
14. Green Freight Distribution.
15. Collaboration in Freight Distribution
16. Cooperative Game Theory
17. Methodology

Author Description

Tolga Bektas is Professor of Logistics Management at the University of Southampton. He has taken part in a number of practical logistics projects, in collaboration with industrial partners such as Canadian National Railway (Canada) and Rail Safety and Standards Board (UK).