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Real-time management and planning of commercial vehicle operations

By: Asvin Goel

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Hardcover | 19 November 2007

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In the past 30 years, commercial transport traffic has more than doubled in both Europe and North America. Asian commercial transport traffic over this period of time has likely increased even more. Traffic jams are routine and they can happen in any segment of the highway system at any time. Moreover, manufacturing companies increasingly apply just-in-time practices in order to cut down inventory costs. As any mismatch between supply and demand can result into significant disturbances of manufacturing processes, just-in-time practices necessitate punctual, reliable, and flexible transportation. Emerging technologies in real-time communications systems provide the means for commercial vehicle operators to meet the increasingly complex customer expectations in a highly dynamic environment with unreliable traffic conditions.

FLEET TELEMATICS: Real-Time Management and Planning of Commercial Vehicle Operations combines wireless telematics systems with dynamic vehicle routing algorithms and vehicle-positioning systems to produce a telematics-enabled information system that can be employed by commercial fleet operators for real-time monitoring, control, and planning. The book presents a Messaging & Fleet Monitoring System that automatically identifies deviations between the planned and the current state of the transportation system and a Dynamic Planning System (DPS) that provides real-time decision support considering the current state of the transportation system. The DPS uses newly developed dynamic vehicle routing algorithms to find high-quality solutions and adjust schedules and routes immediately.

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Introduction	p. 1
Motivation	p. 1
Purpose of this work	p. 2
Overview	p. 4
Telematics	p. 7
Introduction	p. 7
Enabling technologies	p. 8
Wireless communication	p. 8
Trunked radio	p. 8
Cellular communication	p. 9
Satellite communication	p. 10
Dedicated Short Range Communication	p. 12
Broadcasting	p. 12
Positioning systems	p. 13
Dead reckoning	p. 13
Satellite positioning	p. 13
Cellular communication based positioning	p. 17
Signpost systems	p. 19
Geographical Information Systems	p. 19
Data collection	p. 19
Data representation	p. 20
The Geographic Data File	p. 20
Applications	p. 22
Transport telematics	p. 24
Traffic and travel information	p. 26
Vehicle-related safety	p. 28
Commercial vehicles	p. 28
Pre-clearance and safety inspections	p. 28
Fleet telematics	p. 28
Emergency management	p. 30
Electronic Toll Collection	p. 30
Commercial vehicle operations	p. 31
Introduction	p. 31
Development of road freight transport	p. 31
Globalisation and liberalisation	p. 31
Deregulation	p. 34
Supply chain management and just-in-time practices	p. 35
Fundamentals of road freight transportation	p. 36
Transportation requests	p. 36
Physical properties	p. 36
Geographical properties	p. 37
Logical properties	p. 39
Handling requirements	p. 39
Revenue	p. 40
Transportation resources	p. 40
Physical properties	p. 41
Geographical properties	p. 41
Logical properties	p. 43
Handling equipment	p. 45
Costs	p. 45
Transportation services	p. 46
Full-Truckload Trucking	p. 46
Less-Than-Truckload Trucking	p. 46
Courier Company Services	p. 46
Local distribution or collection	p. 47
Management levels	p. 47
Strategic level	p. 47
Tactical level	p. 47
Operational level	p. 48
Real-time level	p. 48
Operational and real-time tasks	p. 49
Fleet management	p. 50
Order management	p. 52
Order management in day-to-day dispatching	p. 52
Order management in real-time dispatching	p. 54
Case study	p. 55
Management information systems	p. 59
Introduction	p. 59
A typical legacy information system	p. 60
System architecture	p. 60
The Order & Fleet Management System	p. 61
Communication	p. 62
Supply chain integration	p. 63
Potentials of telematics	p. 64
Information exchange	p. 66
Route guidance	p. 68
Tracking & tracing	p. 69
Dispatching	p. 70
Load acquisition and freight exchange	p. 70
Invoicing	p. 71
Cost and performance analysis	p. 71
The telematics-enabled information system	p. 71
System architecture	p. 72
The Messaging & Fleet Monitoring System	p. 73
Communication	p. 75
Monitoring	p. 75
Real-time decision support	p. 82
Supply chain integration	p. 86
Implementation and case study	p. 87
Models for routing a fleet of commercial vehicles	p. 95
Introduction	p. 95
The Vehicle Routing Problem	p. 97
Time window restrictions	p. 99
Heterogeneous vehicle fleet	p. 101
The Pickup and Delivery Problem	p. 103
The General Vehicle Routing Problem	p. 105
Load acceptance and employment of external carriers	p. 105
Route restrictions	p. 105
Arbitrary number of pickup, delivery, and service locations	p. 106
Problem formulation	p. 106
Mathematical formulation	p. 107
Drivers'working hours	p. 110
Case study	p. 115
Dynamic vehicle routing	p. 119
Introduction	p. 119
Dynamic vs. static planning	p. 120
Evolution of information	p. 120
Rolling horizon	p. 121
Impreciseness of model representation	p. 121
Interactivity	p. 122
Response time	p. 123
Measuring performance	p. 124
State of the art	p. 124
Assignment methods	p. 125
Construction methods	p. 125
Improvement methods	p. 126
Meta-heuristics	p. 126
Mathematical programming based methods	p. 128
Neighbourhood operators	p. 128
INSERT	p. 129
REMOVE	p. 133
REARRANGE	p. 135
SHIFT	p. 136
EXCHANGE	p. 136
REPLACE	p. 137
SHIFT-REPLACE	p. 138
Insertion methods	p. 138
Sequential insertion	p. 139
Parallel insertion	p. 140
Basic tour improvement	p. 142
Reduced Variable Neighbourhood Search	p. 143
Large Neighbourhood Search	p. 145
Removals	p. 147
Re-insertion	p. 150
Evaluation and case study	p. 151
Conclusions	p. 159
Summary	p. 159
Scientific contributions	p. 160
Future research	p. 161
References	p. 163
Abbreviations	p. 173
Symbols	p. 177
Index	p. 181
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