Abstract
Global intermodal transportation involves the movement of shipments between inland terminals located in different continents by using ships, barges, trains, trucks, or any combination among them through integrated planning at a network level. One of the challenges faced by global operators is the matching of shipment requests with transport services in an integrated global network. The characteristics of the global intermodal shipment matching problem include acceptance and matching decisions, soft time windows, capacitated services, and transshipments between multimodal services. The objective of the problem is to maximize the total profits which consist of revenues, travel costs, transfer costs, storage costs, delay costs, and carbon tax. Travel time uncertainty has significant effects on the feasibility and profitability of matching plans. However, travel time uncertainty has not been considered in global intermodal transport yet leading to significant delays and infeasible transshipments. To fill in this gap, this paper proposes a chance-constrained programming model in which travel times are assumed stochastic. We conduct numerical experiments to validate the performance of the stochastic model in comparison to a deterministic model and a robust model. The experiment results show that the stochastic model outperforms the benchmarks in total profits.
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This research is financially supported by the China Scholarship Council (Grant 201606950003) and “Complexity Methods for Predictive Synchromodality” (project 439.16.120) of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Guo, W., Atasoy, B., Beelaerts van Blokland, W., Negenborn, R.R. (2020). A Global Intermodal Shipment Matching Problem Under Travel Time Uncertainty. In: Lalla-Ruiz, E., Mes, M., Voß, S. (eds) Computational Logistics. ICCL 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12433. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59747-4_36
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