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A review of dynamic vehicle routing problems

Pillac, Victor; Gendreau, Michel; Guéret, Christelle; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 225 (2013) 1, pp. 1-11

A number of technological advances have led to a renewed interest in dynamic vehicle routing problems. This survey classifies routing problems from the perspective of information quality and evolution. After presenting a general description of dynamic routing, we introduce the notion of degree...

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Adjusting a railway timetable in case of partial or complete blockades

Louwerse, Ilse; Huisman, Dennis - In: European Journal of Operational Research 235 (2014) 3, pp. 583-593

Unexpected events, such as accidents or track damages, can have a significant impact on the railway system so that trains need to be canceled and delayed. In case of a disruption it is important that dispatchers quickly present a good solution in order to minimize the nuisance for the...

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Storage yard operations in container terminals: Literature overview, trends, and research directions

Carlo, Héctor J.; Vis, Iris F.A.; Roodbergen, Kees Jan - In: European Journal of Operational Research 235 (2014) 2, pp. 412-430

Inbound and outbound containers are temporarily stored in the storage yard at container terminals. A combination of container demand increase and storage yard capacity scarcity create complex operational challenges for storage yard managers. This paper presents an in-depth overview of storage...

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A review of urban transportation network design problems

Farahani, Reza Zanjirani; Miandoabchi, Elnaz; Szeto, W.Y.; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 229 (2013) 2, pp. 281-302

topology decision variables, and solution methods of the Urban Transportation Network Design Problem (UTNDP), which includes … given. This review intends to provide a bigger picture of transportation network design problems, allow comparisons of …

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Monitoring delivery chains using multivariate control charts

Faraz, Alireza; Heuchenne, Cédric; Saniga, Erwin; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 228 (2013) 1, pp. 282-289

Delivery chains are concerned with the delivery of goods and services to customers within a specific time interval; this time constraint is added to the usual consumer demand for product or service quality. In this context, we address the idea of using process control tools to monitor this key...

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Complex motions of shuttle buses by speed control

Nagatani, Takashi - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 322 (2003) C, pp. 685-697

We study the dynamical behavior of shuttle buses on a route where N buses shuttle between an origin and a destination repeatedly. We present the dynamic model of shuttle buses to take into account the speed control depending on time headway between buses. The model is described by N-dimensional...

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Modified circle map model for complex motion induced by a change of shuttle buses

Nagatani, Takashi - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392 (2013) 16, pp. 3392-3401

We investigate the dynamic behavior of shuttle buses when passengers switch to another bus B on route B from bus A on route A. By switching from bus A to bus B, the outflow of passengers from route A (inflow of passengers into route B) changes to the periodic inflow of a square wave. The...

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Analysis of the airport network of India as a complex weighted network

Bagler, Ganesh - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 12, pp. 2972-2980

Transportation infrastructure of a country is one of the most important indicators of its economic growth. Here we … analysis indicates possible mechanism of formation of a national transportation network, which is different from that on a …

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Variability in overseas travel by Americans, 1820–2000

Dupont, Brandon; Weiss, Thomas - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 7 (2013) 3, pp. 319-339

There were substantial fluctuations in the number of American overseas travelers, especially before World War Two. These fluctuations in travel around the long-term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the data and then try to explain the patterns. We...

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The Potential Impact of Brazil’s Transportation Efficiencies on World Cotton Trade

Salin, Delmy L. - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2013

This paper is a summary of: Rafael de Farias Costa, C. Parr Rosson, III, and Flynn J. Adcock, Transportation …://cnas.tamu.edu/ Publications/Brazil Cotton Transportation Report June 2012.pdf> Brazil is the third largest cotton exporter after the United States … agricultural market. To increase transportation efficiencies, the Brazilian Government wants to reduce export route distances and …

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