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Using Simulated Annealing to Solve the Daily Drayage Problem with Hard Time Windows

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Drayage is the stage of the intermodal transport that deals with transport of freight on trucks among the intermodal terminal, and customers and suppliers that are located in its hinterland. This work proposes an algorithm based on simulated annealing heuristics to solve the operations of drayage. This algorithm has been used to solve battery problems, demonstrating the validity and suitability of its results, which were compared with exact method.

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Escudero-Santana, A., Cuberos-Gallardo, M., Muñuzuri, J., Cortés, P. (2019). Using Simulated Annealing to Solve the Daily Drayage Problem with Hard Time Windows. In: Mula, J., Barbastefano, R., Díaz-Madroñero, M., Poler, R. (eds) New Global Perspectives on Industrial Engineering and Management. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93488-4_10

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