5 papers
Distributed and Dynamic Hub Network Operation Planning in a Hyperconnected Less-Than-Truckload Operating System
Tiankuo Zhang, Jihye Jung, Paria Nourmohammadi +3
The less-than-truckload (LTL) industry plays a vital role in enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of logistics systems, as LTL shipments offer greater consolidation opportun…
Strengthening Dual Bounds for Multicommodity Capacitated Network Design with Unsplittable Flow Constraints
Lacy M. Greening, Santanu S. Dey, Alan L. Erera
Multicommodity capacitated network design (MCND) models can be used to optimize the consolidation of shipments within e-commerce fulfillment networks. In practice, fulfillment netw…
Dynamic Pricing System for Physical Internet Enabled Hyperconnected Less-than-Truckload Freight Logistics Networks
Tiankuo Zhang, Paria Nourmohammadi, Sixtine Guerin +2
Less than truckload shipping plays a critical role in modern supply chains by consolidating freight from multiple shippers into shared vehicles. Despite its operational flexibility…
SPOT: Spatio-Temporal Pattern Mining and Optimization for Load Consolidation in Freight Transportation Networks
Sikai Cheng, Amira Hijazi, Jeren Konak +2
Freight consolidation has significant potential to reduce transportation costs and mitigate congestion and pollution. An effective load consolidation plan relies on carefully chose…
On Linear Threshold Policies for Continuous-Time Dynamic Yield Management
Dipayan Banerjee, Alan Erera, Alejandro Toriello
We study the finite-horizon continuous-time dynamic yield management problem with stationary arrival rates and two customer types. We consider a class of linear threshold policies…