Fleet Sizing and Vehicle Routing for Static Freight Container Transportation

정적 환경의 화물컨테이너 운반 시스템에서의 차량 대수 및 경로 계획

  • 구평회 (부경대학교 산업공학과) ;
  • 장동원 (천일정기화물자동차(주) 택배기획팀) ;
  • 이운식 (부경대학교 산업공학과)
  • Received : 20030100
  • Accepted : 20030500
  • Published : 2003.06.30

Abstract

This paper addresses a fleet operation planning problem for a static freight container transportation system in which all the transportation requirements are predetermined at the beginning of a planning horizon. In the transportation system under consideration, a number of loaded containers are to be moved between container storage yards. An optimal fleet planning model is used to determine the minimum number of vehicles required. Based on the results from the optimal model, a tabu-search based algorithm is presented to perform a given transportation requirements with the least number of vehicles. The performance of the new procedure is evaluated through some experiments in comparison with two existing methods, and the it is found that our procedure produces good-quality solutions.

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