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Modular Design Of Physical Internet Transport, Handling And Packaging Containers, Benoit Montreuil, Eric Ballot, William Tremblay
Modular Design Of Physical Internet Transport, Handling And Packaging Containers, Benoit Montreuil, Eric Ballot, William Tremblay
13th IMHRC Proceedings (Cincinnati, Ohio. USA – 2014)
This paper proposes a three‐tier characterization of Physical Internet containers into transport, handling and packaging containers. It first provides an overview of goods encapsulation in the Physical Internet and of the generic characteristics of Physical Internet containers. Then it proceeds with an analysis of the current goods encapsulation practices. This leads to the introduction of the three tiers, with explicit description and analysis of containers of each tier. The paper provides a synthesis of the proposed transformation of goods encapsulation and highlights key research and innovation opportunities and challenges for both industry and academia.
Robust Truckload Relay Network Design Under Demand Uncertainty, Hector A. Vergara, Zahra Mokhtari
Robust Truckload Relay Network Design Under Demand Uncertainty, Hector A. Vergara, Zahra Mokhtari
13th IMHRC Proceedings (Cincinnati, Ohio. USA – 2014)
This research addresses the issue of incorporating demand uncertainty in the strategic design of relay networks for truckload transportation. An existing composite variable mathematical model for the design of hybrid relay networks is extended by developing its robust counterpart. The proposed approach considers uncertainty in the number of truckloads to be dispatched between a pair of nodes in the network which is characterized by a symmetric interval around the expected demand value. A two-step heuristic approach is used to solve the robust model. Several numerical experiments are carried out to study the differences between the solutions obtained with the robust …