Advances in Truck Scheduling at a Cross Dock Facility

Mihalis M. Golias, Georgios K. D. Saharidis, Stephanie Ivey and Hercules E. Haralambides
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Mihalis M. Golias: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
Georgios K. D. Saharidis: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Stephanie Ivey: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
Hercules E. Haralambides: Center for Maritime Economics & Logistics (MEL), Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM), 2013, vol. 6, issue 3, 40-62

Abstract: In this paper the authors deal with the scheduling of inbound and outbound trucks to the available inbound and outbound doors at a cross dock facility. They assume that all trucks served at the facility need to meet several deadlines for deliveries and pick-ups and thus request a departure time window from the facility, penalizing the facility operator, on a unit of time basis, if that deadline is not met. To solve the resulting problem with reasonable computational effort, a memetic algorithm is developed and a number of computational examples show the efficiency of the proposed solution algorithm and the advantages of scheduling inbound and outbound trucks simultaneously, as opposed to sequentially.

Date: 2013
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