The focus of our research is on rail transportation of intermodal containers. We address the problem of determining day-of-week schedules for both direct and indirect (via a hub) trains and allocating containers to these trains for the rail (linehaul) portion of the intermodal trip. The goal is to minimize operating costs, including a fixed charge for each train, variable transportation and han...

Telegeomonitoring system development combines two heterogeneous technologies: the geographical information systems technology (GIS) and telecommunications technology. In this paper, we give the system components for telegeomonitoring transportation of hazardous materials. The telegeomonitoring system uses GIS to capture civil infrastructure (urban network, land use, industries, etc.) and decisi...

In this paper the Fixed Charge Transportation Problem is considered. A new heuristic approach is proposed, based on the intensive use of Lagrangean relaxation techniques. The more novel aspects of this approach are new Lagrangean relaxation and decomposition methods, the consideration of several core problems, defined from the previously computed Lagrangean reduced costs, the heuristic selectio...

Sensitivity analysis of cost coefficients of an interval transportation problem is discussed. A new solution method namely, upper-lower method is proposed to determine the ranges of costs in the interval transportation problem such that its optimal basis is invariant. The proposed method is illustrated with the help of a numerical example. Further, the upper-lower method is extended to fuzzy tr...

In this paper, we introduce and study fuzzy variational-like inclusion, fuzzy resolvent equation and $H(cdot,cdot)$-$phi$-$eta$-accretive operator in real  uniformly smooth Banach spaces. It is established that fuzzy variational-like inclusion is equivalent to a fixed point problem as well as to a fuzzy resolvent equation. This equivalence is used to define an iterative algorithm for solving fu...