Loading optimization of palletized products on trucks

Heuristic algorithms for a three-dimensional loading capacitated vehicle routing problem in a carrier

“…In the near future we intend to extend these approaches to treat other variants of the problem, such as those involving time windows, pickups and deliveries, among others, and also to embed into the approaches other constraints that are common in freight transportation, such as grouping or separation of boxes inside a vehicle, weight distribution within the vehicle, among others. Another interesting topic for future research is to address situations where boxes need to be packed on pallets first, and then the pallets need to be packed on trucks (Zachariadis et al, 2012(Zachariadis et al, , 2013, whereby it is possible to obtain global utilization indices which are useful to evaluate the economical performance of unit load systems in the logistics chain of a company (Morabito, Morales, & Widmer, 2000).…”

Optimizing the woodpulp stowage using Lagrangean relaxation with clusters

“…The MPLP consists in arranging the maximum number of identical boxes into a pallet. Considering their practical applications (Morabito et al, 2000), several optimization methods have been developed for MPLP. The exact algorithms work, basically, with a tree search structure (Dowsland, 1987;Bhattacharya et al, 1998;Alvarez-Valdez et al, 2005b).…”

A note on an L-approach for solving the manufacturer's pallet loading problem

“…Such testing problems cover all instances with solutions of up to 100 (l, w)-rectangles and pallet dimension (L, W ) of up to (1000, 1000) from problem sets Cover I and II in Morabito and Morales 10 . These problems are realistic in pallet loading contexts as depicted in Morabito et al 11 .…”