Making Data-Driven Transportation Decisions for Freight Operations

Planning Robust Freight Transportation Operations

Optimal planning of order–based operations for intermodal freight transportation

In this paper, a planning problem is analysed for a consolidation transportation system in order to serve different transportation requests (i.e., orders) with different origins and destinations and different characteristics. The considered transportation system is a railway network provided with innovative terminals (where handling operations are realized very much faster than in traditional t...

Dynamic Models for Freight Transportation

Freight transportation is characterized by a variety of dynamic information processes: the demands of customers, the performance of people and equipment, and the performance of the network. In addition, large networks are characterized by how they organize decisions and information: who makes what decision with what information? This chapter approaches the development of models for freight tran...

Intermodal Freight Transportation

The 21st century will see a renewed focus on intermodal freight transportation driven by the changing requirements of global supply chains. Each of the transportation modes (air, inland water, ocean, pipeline, rail, and road) has gone through technological evolution and has functioned separately under a modally based regulatory structure for most of the 20th century. With the development of con...

Evolutionary Freight Transportation Planning

In this paper, we present the freight transportation planning component of the INWEST project. This system utilizes an evolutionary algorithm with intelligent search operations in order to achieve a high utilization of resources and a minimization of the distance travelled by freight carriers in real-world scenarios. We test our planner rigorously with real-world data and obtain substantial imp...