The last decades have seen a tremendous amount of research being devoted to effectively managing vehicle fleets and minimizing empty mileage. However, in contrast to, e.g., the air transport sector, the question of how to best assign crews to vehicles, has received very little attention in the...

Truck driver scheduling problems are important subproblems of real-life vehicle routing and scheduling problems because rest periods required by government regulations have a significant impact on travel and arrival times. Vehicle routes generated without considering these regulations are often...

This paper studies the revised hours of service regulations for truck drivers in the United States which will enter into force in July 2013. It provides a detailed model of the new regulation and presents and a new simulation-based method to assess the impact of the rule change on operational...

Since April 2007 working hours of truck drivers in the European Union must comply with regulation (EC) No 561/2006. According to the new regulation, transport companies must organise the work of drivers in a way that drivers are able to comply with the regulation and can be made liable for...

In the United States of America driving and working hours of truck drivers must comply with the hours of service regulations imposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Generating work plans complying with these regulations for a given sequence of locations to be visited is a non-trivial...

Since April 2007 working hours of truck drivers in the European Union are regulated by regulation (EC) No 561/2006. According to the new regulations, 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...

Technological advances such as global positioning, telematics, RFID, wireless communication, etc. allow to improve near real-time visibility over assets in transit. Despite the technological advances it appears that many global supply chains still suffer from the lack of visibility. While the...

This document presents various rankings of publication output of scholars in the field of business studies. The rankings are based on the ABDC Journal Quality List, the CABS Academic Journal Guide, the ERIM Journal List, the FMS Journal Rating Guide, the list of the Handelsblatt BWL Ranking, the...

Operations management entails the design and control of business operations with the goal of providing goods and services as efficiently as possible. Usually various resources are required to conduct operations and the required resources are usually limited in numbers and availability. Business...

This document presents various rankings of publication output of scholars in the field of business studies. The rankings are based on the ABDC Journal Quality List, the CABS Academic Journal Guide, the ERIM Journal List, the FMS Journal Rating Guide, the list of the Handelsblatt BWL Ranking, the...