Models for Multimodal Freight Transportation Integrating Consolidation and Transportation Phases

Leonardo Malta, Nicolas Jozefowiez, Fréderic Semet

2015

Abstract

It is important for economic development and international trade the ability to move freight in a cost-efficient, safe and quick fashion. The paper will discuss the door-to-door freight transportation problem in its two phases: consolidation phase and transportation between the platforms. In a general way, the problem is described as a set of orders that have a release and delivery date and must be consolidated and routed from a source to a destination point. Two models are proposed, both integrating several aspects of the problem such as long-haul transportation, freight consolidation, freight storage and intermodal transportation. The first is a time-space based model and the second an implicit time representation model. Models are formulated as integer programming problems and some results of small practical instances are shown along with some considerations.

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in Harvard Style

Malta L., Jozefowiez N. and Semet F. (2015). Models for Multimodal Freight Transportation Integrating Consolidation and Transportation Phases . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-075-8, pages 338-345. DOI: 10.5220/0005210803380345


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores15,
author={Leonardo Malta and Nicolas Jozefowiez and Fréderic Semet},
title={Models for Multimodal Freight Transportation Integrating Consolidation and Transportation Phases},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2015},
pages={338-345},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005210803380345},
isbn={978-989-758-075-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Models for Multimodal Freight Transportation Integrating Consolidation and Transportation Phases
SN - 978-989-758-075-8
AU - Malta L.
AU - Jozefowiez N.
AU - Semet F.
PY - 2015
SP - 338
EP - 345
DO - 10.5220/0005210803380345