A simulation study of the productivity of large trucks with shorter trailers

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 261-285

  Dessouky, Yasser ^a   Tsao, H S Jacob ^a   Patel, Minnie H ^a   Zeta, Joseph Benjamin ^a   Zhou, Lihong ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispatching; Freight hub; Large trucks; Pickup and delivery; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOADING; PRODUCTIVITY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

DISPATCHING; FREIGHT HUB; SHORTER TRAILER COMBINATION VEHICLES (STCV); VAN-LINE INDUSTRY;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 34248333462     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2007.012462     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Desrosiers, J., Dumas, Y. and Soumis, F. (1986) 'A dynamic programming solution to the large-scale single-vehicle dial-a-ride problem with time windows', Amer. J. Math. Management Sci., Vol. 6, pp.301-325.
2. Dumas, Y., Desrosiers, J. and Soumis, F. (1991) 'The pickup and delivery problem with time windows', Eur. J. Oper. Res., Vol. 54, No. 1, pp.7-22.
3. Federal Highway Administration (1986) Longer Combination Vehicle Operations in Western States, US Department of Transportation.
4. Federal Highway Administration (2000) Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Study, US Department of Transportation.
5. Fischetti, M. and Toth, P. (1989) 'An additive bounding procedure for combinatorial optimization problems', Oper. Res., Vol. 37, No. 2, pp.319-328.
6. General Accounting Office (1994) Longer Combination Vehicles: Potential Infrastructure Impacts, Productivity Benefits, and Safety Concerns - Testimony before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, US Senate, GAO/ T-RCED-94-306, US General Accounting Office.
7. Ioachim, I., Desrosiers, J., Dumas, Y., Solomon, M.M. and Villeneuve, D. (1995) 'A request clustering algorithm for door-to-door handicapped transportation', Transportation Sci., Vol. 29, No. 1, pp.63-78.
8. Kalantari, B., Hills, A.V. and Arora, S.R. (1985) 'An algorithm for the traveling salesman problem with pickup and delivery customers', Eur. J. Oper. Res., Vol. 22, No. 3, pp.377-386.
9. Landrieu, A., Mati, Y. and Binder, Z. (2001) 'A tabu search heuristic for the single vehicle pickup and delivery problem with time windows', Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Vol. 12, Nos. 5-6, pp.497-508.
10. Lankard, T.L. and Lehrer, J. (1999) 'Big trucks, big trouble? - long combination vehicles could mean greater risks on California roads', Westways, Auto Club of Southern California, Vol. 91, No. 6.
11. Lao, H.C. and Liang, Z. (2002) 'Pickup and delivery with time windows: algorithms and test case generation', International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (Architectures, Languages, Algorithms), Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.455-472.
12. Li, H. and Lim, A. (2001) 'A metaheuristic for the pickup and delivery problem with time windows', Proceedings 13th IEEE ICTAI 2001, Los Alamitos, California, pp. 160-167.
13. Lu, Q. and Dessouky, M.M. (2004) 'An exact algorithm for the multiple vehicle pickup and delivery problem', Transportation Science, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp.503-514.
14. Lu, Q. and Dessouky, M.M. (2006) 'A new insertion-based construction heuristic for solving the pickup and delivery problem with time windows', European Journal of Operational Research.
15. Madsen, O.B.G., Ravn, H.F. and Rygaard, J.M. (1995) 'A heuristic algorithm for a dial-a-ride problem with time windows, multiple capacities and multiple objectives', Ann. Oper. Res., Vol. 60, pp.193-208.
16. Nanry, W.P. and Barnes, J.W. (2000) 'Solving the pickup and delivery problem with time windows using reactive tabu search', Transportation Research, Vol. 34B, No. 2. pp.107-121.
17. Psaraftis, H. (1980) 'A dynamic programming solution to the single vehicle many-to-many immediate request dial-a-ride problem', Transportation Sci., Vol. 14, No. 2, pp.130-154.
18. Psaraftis, H. (1983) 'An exact algorithm for the single vehicle many-to-many immediate request dial-a-ride problem with time windows', Transportation Sci., Vol. 17, No. 3, pp.351-357.
19. Rangavajhula, K. and Tsao, H-S.J. (2005) 'Effect of multi-axle steering on off-tracking and dynamic lateral response of articulated tractor-trailer combinations', International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems, (Series B of International Journal of Vehicle Design).
20. Rangavajhula, K. and Tsao, H-S.J. (2006) 'Active trailer steering control of an articulated system with a tractor and three full trailers for tractor-track following', International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems, (Series B of International Journal of Vehicle Design).
21. Ruland, K.S. and Rodin, E.Y. (1997) 'The pickup and delivery problem: faces and branch-and-cut algorithm', Comput. Math. Appl., Vol. 33, No. 12, pp.1-13.
22. Savelsbergh, M.W.P. and Sol, M. (1998) 'Drive: dynamic routing of independent vehicles", Operations Research, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp.474-490.
23. Toth, P. and Vigo, D. (1997) 'Heuristic algorithm for the handicapped persons transportation problem', Transportation Sci., Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.60-71.
24. Transportation Research Board (1982) An Investigation of Truck Size and weight Limits: Panel Review of Final Report (including comments made by major stakeholders, e.g., American Trucking Associations, American Automobile Association, Environmental Defense Fund), Office of the Secretary, US Department of Transportation, UR 26.
25. Tsao, H-S.J., Dessouky, Y., Rangavajhula, K., Zeta, J.B. and Zhou, L. (2006) Automatic Steering for Conventional Truck Trailers: Development and Assessment of Operating Concepts for Improving Safety, Productivity and Pavement Durability - Final Report, PATH Research Report UCB-ITS-PRR-2006-8, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley.