Autonomous trucks are expected to fundamentally transform the freight transportation industry. In particular, Autonomous Transfer Hub Networks (ATHNs), which combine autonomous trucks on middle miles with human-driven trucks on the first and last miles, are seen as the most likely deployment...

This papers considers the allocation of cargoes to tanks for the specific case of chemical liquid bulk vessels. No articles in the literature and no commercial software packages are available that can handle the multitude of side constraints that need to be considered. These constraints include...