Decision support for intermodal transportation
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Short description
This project is dedicated to the developement of decision support approaches in transportation planning of distribution networks. Methods should bedeveloped that allow managers of large-scaled companies to find an optimal combination of transport services such that a set of customers can be supplied by a set of production sites. Here, the term "transport services" subsumes types of organization for rail, road and water transports. By combining different transport services intermodal transport chains are creates which can gain cost advantages compared with unimodal transports due to freight consolidation effects. A prerequisite is the coordination / synchronization of freight flows in time and space. Therefore, the project focusses on the modelling of consolidation and synchronization effects, which in turn eases the planning of intermodal transport chains. The optimal mix of transport service may contain intermodal as well as unimodal transports. Its structure depends on the costs of the considered services as well as structural restrictions. Hence, a central point in this project is to investigate the effects of these parameters on the optimal mix of transport services.
Selection of project-related talks and publications
- Kirschstein, T., Meisel, F., Bierwirth, C.: A bi-objective intermodal transportation planningproblem for large-scale distribution networks, 27th European conference on Operational Research, Glasgow, 13.07.2015
- Meisel, F.; Bierwirth, C., Kirschstein, T., Kawalek, A.: Efficient allocation of transport resources under emissions constraints, Meeting of the Scientific Commission for Logistics, Kassel, 18.01.2014
- Meisel, F.; Kirschstein, T.; Bierwirth, C.: Integrated Production and Intermodal Transportation Planning in Large Scale Production-Distribution-Networks, Transportation Research Part E 60 (2013), 62-78
- Kirschstein, T.; Meisel, F.; Bierwirth, C.: Integrated Production and Intermodal Transportation Planning in Large Scale Production-Distribution-Networks, Logistikmanagement 2013, Bremen, 12.09.2013
- Meisel, F.: Intermodal Rail/Road Transportation - A Case Study from Europe, invited lecture, Jacobs University Bremen, 28.02.2013
- Christian Bierwirth: Transport Service Selection in Intermodal Rail/Road Distribution Networks, invited talk, FernUniversität Hagen, 11.01.2013
- Bierwirth, C.; Kirschstein, T.; Meisel, F.: On Transport Service Selection in Intermodal Rail/Road Distribution Networks, BuR - Business Research 5 (2012), 198-219.
- Bierwirth, C.; Kirschstein, T.; Meisel, F.: On transport service selection in intermodal rail/road networks, research colloquium, Halle, 25.04.2012.
- Bierwirth, C.; Kirschstein, T.; Meisel, F.: On transport service selection in intermodal rail/road networks, BuR Conference 2012, Magdeburg, 27.02.2012.