Ferrucci, Francesco. <br/><br/>
Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing  Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service /  [electronic resource] : 
by Francesco Ferrucci. 
 - LII, 319 p.  online resource. 
 - Contributions to Management Science,  1431-1941 .
 - Contributions to Management Science, .
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Introduction to Tour Planning: Vehicle Routing and Related Problems -- The Considered RDOPG Applications -- Review of the Literature Related to the Considered RDOPG Applications -- A New Deterministic Real-Time Control Approach for RDOPG Applications.-&#xA0;A New Forecasting Approach for Generating Stochastic Knowledge.-&#xA0;The Proposed Tabu Search Solution Method.  -- Computational Results -- Summary and Outlook on Future Work -- Appendix -- References. &#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0;&#xA0; &#xA0;&#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0; &#xA0;. 
<br/><br/> This book deals with transportation processes denoted as the Real-time Distribution of Perishable Goods (RDOPG). The book presents three contributions that are made to the field of transportation. First, a model considering the minimization of customer inconvenience is formulated. Second, a pro-active real-time control approach is proposed. Stochastic knowledge is generated from past request information by a new forecasting approach and is used in the pro-active approach to guide vehicles to request-likely areas before real requests arrive there. Various computational results are presented to show that in many cases the pro-active approach is able to achieve significantly improved results. Moreover, a measure for determining the structural quality of request data sets is also proposed. The third contribution of this book is a method that is presented for considering driver inconvenience aspects which arise from vehicle en-route diversion activities. Specifically, this method makes it possible to restrict the number of performed vehicle en-route diversion activities. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783642334726 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/978-3-642-33472-6  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Business.<br/>Production management.<br/>Operations research.<br/>Decision making.<br/>Sales management.<br/>Computer simulation.<br/>Business and Management.<br/>Operation Research/Decision Theory.<br/>Operations Management.<br/>Sales/Distribution.<br/>Simulation and Modeling.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD30.23 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.40301