A ship-truck intermodal transportation problem

Davide Infante (), Giuseppe Paletta and Francesca Vocaturo
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Giuseppe Paletta: Departimento di Economia e Statistica, Università Della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
Francesca Vocaturo: Departimento di Economia e Statistica, Università Della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy

Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2009, vol. 11, issue 3, 247-259

Abstract: This article focuses on an intermodal freight transport service in which containers represent the moved loading units. In particular, it deals with the advantages of combining sea and road transportation – sea for transferring large quantities over long distances, road for collecting and distributing over short or medium distances. With a view to minimizing the total cost of the service, we formulate a ship-truck intermodal transportation problem as a Travelling Purchaser Problem (TPP), in this way broadening the real-world applications field of the TPP. To tackle this problem, a heuristic algorithm is presented and experimentally tested. Computational results indicate that the algorithm is very efficient on a set of benchmark instances, quickly achieving optimal or near-optimal solutions. Maritime Economics & Logistics (2009) 11, 247–259. doi:10.1057/mel.2009.6

Date: 2009
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