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Fuel Consumption Costs of Routing Uncertainty

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Operations Research Proceedings 2013

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We solve a car driver’s routing decision problem under uncertainty in terms of fuel consumption costs. Suppose a car driver can estimate his fuel consumption for a given route between A and B. We study the optimal decision regarding which route to take, given the possibility of travelling between A and B using different routes, where each route is characterized by stochastic uncertain fuel consumption due to unknown traffic at the time of decision. We show that the cost of fuel consumption decreases significantly when taking routes with uncertain knowledge about prevailing traffic.

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  1. Department of Finance, Faculty of Busines Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, Brünner Strasse 72, 1210, Vienna, Austria

    Stephan Unger

  2. Faculty of Business Administration, Avenida Padre Tomás Pereira, Taipa, University of Macau, Macau, China

    William Cheung

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  1. Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Dennis Huisman

  2. Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Ilse Louwerse

  3. Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Albert P.M. Wagelmans

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Unger, S., Cheung, W. (2014). Fuel Consumption Costs of Routing Uncertainty. In: Huisman, D., Louwerse, I., Wagelmans, A. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2013. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07001-8_63

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