Challenges in managing empty container movements at multiple planning levels

K Braekers, GK Janssens, A Caris - Transport Reviews, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Empty container management deals with repositioning empty containers at minimum costs
while fulfilling empty container demands. Due to imbalances in trade, some areas have a …

Logistics and distribution challenges to managing operations for corporate sustainability: study on leading Indian diary organizations

SK Mangla, YK Sharma, PP Patil, G Yadav… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
In order to improve the corporate sustainability of agro-food value chains, business
organizations need to rely on a higher performing and more reliable logistics system …

Container port drayage operations and management: Past and future

R Chen, Q Meng, P Jia - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although long-haul intermodal container transportation combines multiple transportation
modes including ship**, the most critical aspect of enabling door-to-door service is …

Reducing port-related empty truck emissions: A mathematical approach for truck appointments with collaboration

F Schulte, E Lalla-Ruiz, RG González-Ramírez… - … Research Part E …, 2017 - Elsevier
Port-related emissions are a growing problem for urban areas often located directly next to
maritime container terminals highly frequented by container trucks. Empty truck trips, caused …

Heuristic-based truck scheduling for inland container transportation

R Zhang, WY Yun, H Kopfer - OR spectrum, 2010 - Springer
A truck scheduling problem for container transportation in a local area with multiple depots
and multiple terminals including containers as a resource for transportation is addressed …

A market-oriented approach for intermodal network optimisation meeting cost, time and environmental requirements

JSL Lam, Y Gu - International Journal of Production Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
An increasing number of logistics service providers act as freight integrators in offering one-
stop solutions to customers in recent years. Most mathematical models of intermodal …

Multi-objective two-stage grey transportation problem using utility function with goals

SK Roy, G Maity, GW Weber - Central European Journal of Operations …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Multi-Objective Goal Programming is applied to solve problems in many application
areas of real-life decision making problems. We formulate the mathematical model of Two …

Integrated planning of loaded and empty container movements

K Braekers, A Caris, GK Janssens - OR spectrum, 2013 - Springer
Efficiently planning drayage operations is an important task for transportation companies
since these operations constitute a large part of the cost of an intermodal transport. In this …

A truck scheduling problem arising in intermodal container transportation

J Nossack, E Pesch - European Journal of Operational Research, 2013 - Elsevier
We address a truck scheduling problem that arises in intermodal container transportation,
where containers need to be transported between customers (shippers or receivers) and …

Optimization of drayage operations with time-window constraints

S Shiri, N Huynh - International Journal of Production Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper addresses a version of the drayage problem in which the intermodal terminal
requires trucks to have an appointment, and each truck must pick up or drop off the container …