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Operational Transportation Planning of Modern Freight Forwarding Companies

Vehicle Routing under Consideration of Subcontracting and Request Exchange

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  1. Xin Wang

    1. Lehrstuhl für Logistik FB7 Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  • Publication in the field of economic sciences
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Produktion und Logistik (PL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 1-5

  3. Vehicle Routing

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 7-23

  4. Freight Consolidation

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 25-41

  12. Conclusions and future research

    • Xin Wang
    Pages 147-151

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 153-161
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About this book

Modern freight forwarding companies attempt to cooperate with each other to increase their efficiency. Xin Wang studies the new operational transportation planning problems that arise in the context of cooperation in both static and dynamic scenarios. To achieve the cost-savings embedded in cooperation, novel planning approaches that can help forwarders obtaining high-quality solutions are proposed. Computational studies show considerable benefits that can be achieved through cooperation.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Lehrstuhl für Logistik FB7 Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Xin Wang

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About the author

Dr. Xin Wang wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Kopfer at the Chair of Logistics at the University of Bremen.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Operational Transportation Planning of Modern Freight Forwarding Companies

  • Book Subtitle: Vehicle Routing under Consideration of Subcontracting and Request Exchange

  • Authors: Xin Wang

  • Series Title: Produktion und Logistik

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06869-1

  • Publisher: Springer Gabler Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-06868-4Published: 25 August 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-06869-1Published: 14 August 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1431-6846

  • Series E-ISSN: 2628-0108

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 161

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Management

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