Alternative Performance Indicators for Optimizing Container Assignment in a Synchromodal Transportation Network

Vecchyo, M.R. Ortega del; Phillipson, Frank; Sangers, Alex

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00898-7_14

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“…Del Vecchyo et al [67] and Dobrkovic et al [68] research prerequisites to enable digital tools for SMT. The former observes that in operational SMT planning, costs and transport times are the most important KPIs.…”

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Promoting Sustainability through Synchromodal Transportation: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Fields of Research

2022

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Synchromodal transportation is a novel multimodal transportation concept. It builds on a collaboration of shippers and logistic service providers to enable real-time switching between transport modes and mode-free transport bookings, enabling more flexible and sustainable freight transportation. This paper summarizes the current state of research since 2010 by means of a systematic literature review. A comprehensive taxonomy consisting of five dimensions and 13 categories for both qualitative and quantitative papers is developed. The results reveal a mixed picture, with high consistency in geographical areas of synchromodal transportation implementation and suitable modeling of operational disruptions and uncertainties. However, compared to multimodal or road transportation, there is little alignment in the forms of collaboration, network organization, or the advantages of synchromodal transportation. Finally, the main fields for future research are identified, namely business, legal, technological, modeling, and awareness.

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Promoting Sustainability through Synchromodal Transportation: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Fields of Research

2022

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“…For example: a container travels on one day by train on a part of its route, but another day a container on the same route and the same part travels by barge. In synchromodal transportation planning two things are important [151]:…”

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Optimising Routing in an Agent-Centric Synchromodal Network with Shared Information

Juncker

2022

Lecture Notes in Operations Research

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This thesis is part of the NWO research project: "Complexity Methods for Predictive Synchromodality" [140]. This program is aimed at innovative and multidisciplinary research to create new ideas for complex logistic systems. The complexity of the systems arises from the interaction between subsystems and the variability in the systems themselves. The research for this project has been done at TNO, in the department Cyber Security and Robustness. The mission of TNO is to connect people and knowledge to create innovations that boost the competitive strength of industry and the well-being of society in a sustainable way. Our research focuses on synchromodal planning problems. A synchromodal system is a multimodal network in which logistic service providers have the opportunity to switch mode of transport of containers based on real-time data. This means that customers need to book amodally and the information within this multimodal network is shared to all agents. The planning problems that arise due to this added flexibility are synchromodal planning problems. First, we perform an extensive literature study that describes research concerning synchromodal planning problems. We divide this research into strategic, tactical and operational planning. Research on operational planning is scarce, therefore our research focuses on this aspect. For synchromodal planning problems a framework categorising this research does not yet exist and therefore we will develop such a framework. Furthermore, we develop two different models of synchromodal systems. We focus on a synchromodal transportation system in which information is shared between all agents in the system. Here all agents are "selfish", i.e. choosing routes based on an individual optimisation objective. Information can be public, i.e. known to everybody in the network or private, i.e. information that belongs to a certain agent which needs to be willing to share this information. One of our models is an analytic model that relies on certain assumptions. This model is static in nature and therefore, not all aspects from real life cases are encompassed in this model. However, even with simplifications the analytic model is too computationally heavy. The other model is a simulation-based model, which can handle more realistic instances. We also develop four different methods to determine the optimal paths in such an agent-centric synchromodal network. We develop two simulation-based heuristics and two other simulation-based solution algorithms. The heuristics only act on public information, i.e. information about the congestion on the roads. The simulation-based models also act on private information, i.e. information about upcoming orders.The two heuristics and one of the simulation-based methods are then tested on a synchromodal network and on two smaller examples. The small examples show that there are instances in which the simulation-based solution algorithm outperforms the two heuristics. This means that the addition of private information can decrease costs. How...

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Fair User Equilibrium in a Transportation Space-Time Network

Bruijns

Phillipson²,

Sangers

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Alternative Performance Indicators for Optimizing Container Assignment in a Synchromodal Transportation Network

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Promoting Sustainability through Synchromodal Transportation: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Fields of Research

Promoting Sustainability through Synchromodal Transportation: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Fields of Research

Optimising Routing in an Agent-Centric Synchromodal Network with Shared Information

Fair User Equilibrium in a Transportation Space-Time Network

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