The Effect of Cooperation in Pickup and Multiple Delivery Problems

Philip Mourdjis, Fiona Polack, Peter Cowling, Yujie Chen, Martin Robinson

2016

Abstract

Small logistics companies operate in many towns and cities across the UK, and need to be able to compete with larger delivery companies who can leverage economies of scale to provide lower costs to customers. If small companies were willing to work together, all could benefit from reduced operating costs, enabling them to compete and survive against larger delivery companies. In cooperation with Transfaction Ltd., we investigate dynamic scheduling of shared loads for real-world, long distance truck haulage in the UK. We model the problem as a dynamic pickup and multiple delivery problem (PMDP). The PMDP is a one-many problem (one pickup, many drop-offs), unlike the more widely researched one-one (pickup and delivery problem, PDP) and one-many-one (vehicle routing problem, VRP) problems.

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Mourdjis P., Polack F., Cowling P., Chen Y. and Robinson M. (2016). The Effect of Cooperation in Pickup and Multiple Delivery Problems . In Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-171-7, pages 287-295. DOI: 10.5220/0005748902870295


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@conference{icores16,
author={Philip Mourdjis and Fiona Polack and Peter Cowling and Yujie Chen and Martin Robinson},
title={The Effect of Cooperation in Pickup and Multiple Delivery Problems},
booktitle={Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2016},
pages={287-295},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005748902870295},
isbn={978-989-758-171-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - The Effect of Cooperation in Pickup and Multiple Delivery Problems
SN - 978-989-758-171-7
AU - Mourdjis P.
AU - Polack F.
AU - Cowling P.
AU - Chen Y.
AU - Robinson M.
PY - 2016
SP - 287
EP - 295
DO - 10.5220/0005748902870295