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Simultaneous fleet assignment and cargo routing using benders decomposition

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In this paper, we incorporate the cargo routing problem into fleet assignment to model the fleet assignment more accurately. An integrated model and a Benders decomposition-based approach are developed to simultaneously obtain the optimal assignment of fleet to legs and the routing of forecasted cargo demand over the network. Computational experiments show that this integrated approach converges very fast for all different test scenarios.

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  1. Intel Corporation (Shanghai), Solver Solution Engineering Team, No 999 Ying Lun Road, Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, Pudong, 200131, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

    D. Li

  2. Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, 1 Engineering Drive 2, Singapore, 117576, Singapore

    H.-C. Huang & E.-P. Chew

  3. Department of Operational Research, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK

    A. D. Morton

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Li, D., Huang, HC., Morton, A.D. et al. Simultaneous fleet assignment and cargo routing using benders decomposition. OR Spectrum 28, 319–335 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-006-0041-8

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