Vehicle Routing under Consideration of Driving and Working Hours

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Introduction

   • Christoph Manuel Meyer

   Pages 1-7

3. European Legislation on Driving and Working Hours in Road Transportation

   • Christoph Manuel Meyer

   Pages 9-24

4. Dispatchers' Tasks in Combined Vehicle Routing and Break Scheduling

   • Christoph Manuel Meyer

   Pages 25-38

5. Model for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and European Social Legislation

   • Christoph Manuel Meyer

   Pages 39-65

6. Distributed Decision Making in Combined Vehicle Routing and Break Scheduling

   • Christoph Manuel Meyer

   Pages 67-101

7. Restricted Dynamic Programming Heuristic for the Problem of Combined Vehicle Routing and Break Scheduling

   • Christoph Manuel Meyer

   Pages 103-133

8. Conclusions and Further Research

   • Christoph Manuel Meyer

   Pages 135-139

9. Back Matter

   Pages 141-152

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In April 2007 new legal rules concerning the driving and working hours of truck drivers have become valid in all member countries of the European Union. In the study of Christoph Manuel Meyer the dispatchers’ problem of combined vehicle routing and break scheduling is modelled and solved using an efficient heuristic solution algorithm. Special attention is given to the distributed decision competences between dispatchers and drivers, which are usually encountered in practice. Finally, strategies for including the legal rules in the dispatching process are suggested, which can easily be implemented by freight forwarding companies in practice.

• Lenk- und Ruhezeitregelungen
• Logistik
• Mathematische Modellierung
• Tourenplanung
• Verteilte Entscheidungen

Dr. Christoph Manuel Meyer wrote his dissertation under Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Kopfer’s supervision at the Chair of Logistics at the University of Bremen.

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