Truck Driver Scheduling in the European Union

Asvin Goel ()
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Asvin Goel: MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, 50197 Zaragoza, Spain, and Applied Telematics/e-Business Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, 04109 Leipzig, Germany

Transportation Science, 2010, vol. 44, issue 4, 429-441

Abstract: Since April 2007 working hours of truck drivers in the European Union are controlled by regulation (EC) No. 561/2006. According to the new regulation, road transport undertakings must organise the work of drivers in a way that drivers are able to comply with the regulations and can be made liable for infringements committed by the drivers. Although of particular importance in long-distance haulage, regulations on working hours of truck drivers have received very little attention in the scheduling literature. This paper presents a method for scheduling driving and working hours of truck drivers with respect to regulation (EC) No. 561/2006. Given a sequence of locations to be visited within specified time windows, the approach is guaranteed to find a schedule complying with the regulation if such a schedule exists.

Keywords: vehicle scheduling; regulation (EC) No. 561/2006; drivers' working hours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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