On the integration of container availability constraints into daily drayage operations arising in France: Modelling and optimization

A. Benantar, M.N. Abourraja, J. Boukachour, D. Boudebous and C. Duvallet

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020, vol. 140, issue C

Abstract: The paper discusses a containers’ drayage by trucks, which is motivated by a real-life application arising in the intermodal freight transportation. This problem considers not only classical assumptions of the intermodal transportation, but also introduces the availability of containers as a new concept. For this purpose, we first describe the industrial context and provide the mathematical optimization model which combines a set of known and new constraints. We then propose a solution approach based on variable neighborhood search algorithm combined with pairing and insertion heuristics, as well as with variable neighborhood descent and tabu search methods. Optimization has then been embedded into a simulation model which designs the rail/road terminal. To be more specific, this optimization model can be used to evaluate several distribution policies, which results in a set of routing decisions and can adopt the best policy in a distribution network with competing rail and road transport services. Finally, we test the proposed model on real and generated instances characterizing several scenarios to highlight the performance and efficiency of our approach.

Keywords: Freight transportation; Rail/road terminal; Container drayage; Pickup and delivery; Metaheuristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1366554520306207
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:transe:v:140:y:2020:i:c:s1366554520306207

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/600244/bibliographic
http://www.elsevier. ... 600244/bibliographic

DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2020.101969

Access Statistics for this article

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review is currently edited by W. Talley

More articles in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().