ABSTRACT

This book serves as a primer on freight transportation and logistics, providing a general and broad coverage of concepts, mathematical models and methodologies available for freight transportation planning at strategic, tactical and operational levels. It is aimed at graduate students, and is also a reference book for practitioners in the field.

The book includes preliminaries, such as mathematical modeling and optimisation algorithms. The book also features case studies and practical real-life examples to illustrate applications of the concepts and models covered, and to encourage a hands-on and a practical approach. The author has taught and published extensively in the field and draw on state-of-the-art scientific research. He has also been part of a number of practical research projects, which underpin the real life examples in the book.

chapter 2|42 pages

Location in networks

chapter 3|36 pages

Transportation and service networks

chapter 4|64 pages

Routing problems

chapter 5|18 pages

Integrated routing problems

chapter 6|26 pages

Green freight distribution

chapter 7|12 pages

Collaboration in freight distribution

chapter 8|44 pages

Methodology