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Shipment in a multi-choice environment: a case study of shipping carriers in US

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This research paper studies a bi-objective multi-choice scenario faced by a decision maker while shipping packets across a transportation network. A varying range of carriers with multiple time and cost options give rise to multi-choice parameters. In order to equip the decision maker for solving this multi-choice time–cost trade-off scenario, a multi-choice bi-objective transportation problem with fuzzy as well as crisp parameters is modeled. Firstly, a fuzzy transportation problem covering time critical services from a single shipping carrier is solved with the objective of minimizing total shipment cost along with the makespan. Further, the same problem has been analyzed considering multiple carriers for non-time critical services. The algorithms are validated on a use case covering ten major cities of the US with the time–cost data from UPS, FedEx and USPS.

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We are thankful to Mr. Ankit Khandelwal, Director, Analytics and Optimization Solutions, FICO, Singapore for his painstaking efforts to provide valuable comments and suggestions.

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Singh, S., Singh, S. Shipment in a multi-choice environment: a case study of shipping carriers in US. Cent Eur J Oper Res 30, 1195–1219 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-021-00757-2

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