Full Description
This book explores the methodological and application developments of network design in transportation and logistics. It identifies trends, challenges and research perspectives in network design for these areas. Network design is a major class of problems in operations research where network flow, combinatorial and mixed integer optimization meet. The analysis and planning of transportation and logistics systems continues to be one of the most important application areas of operations research. Networks provide the natural way of depicting such systems, so the optimal design and operation of networks is the main methodological area of operations research that is used for the analysis and planning of these systems. This book defines the current state of the art in the general area of network design, and then turns to its applications to transportation and logistics. New research challenges are addressed.
Network Design with Applications to Transportation and Logistics is divided into three parts. Part I examines basic design problems including fixed-cost network design and parallel algorithms. After addressing the basics, Part II focuses on more advanced models. Chapters cover topics such as multi-facility network design, flow-constrained network design, and robust network design. Finally Part III is dedicated entirely to the potential application areas for network design. These areas range from rail networks, to city logistics, to energy transport. All of the chapters are written by leading researchers in the field, which should appeal to analysts and planners.
Contents
Chapter 1. The Network Design Story.- Part I The Basic Design Problems.- Chapter 2. Fixed-Cost Network Design.- Chapter 3. Exact Methods for Fixed-cost Network Design.- Chapter 4. Meta-heuristics for Fixed-cost Network Design.- Chapter 5. Parallel Algorithms for Network Design.- Part II Advanced Models.- Chapter 6. Multi-Facility Network Design - General Integer Models.- Chapter 7. Multi-Facility Network Design - Binary Models.- Chapter 8. Topology-Constrained Network Design.- Chapter 9 Flow-Constrained Network Design.- Chapter 10. Bylevel Network Design.- Chapter 11 Multilayer Network Design.- Chapter 12 Stochastic Network Design.- Chapter 13 Robust network Design.- Part III Applications.- Chapter 14. Service Network Design.- Chapter 15. Hub-based Network Design.- Chapter 16. Motor Carrier Network Design.- Chapter 17. Rail Network Design.- Chapter 18. Maritime & River Navigation Network Design.- Chapter 19. Transit Transportation Network Design.- Chapter 20. Supply Chain - Logistics Networks.- Chapter 21. Collaborative Logistics and Network Design.- Chapter 22. City Logistics.- Chapter 23. Energy transport Networks.- Chapter 24. Conclusions and perspectives.
