Operations and Supply Chain Management Commons^™

On Export Intermodal Transportation Problem, Supriya Arun Jadhav

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates a logistics problem facing companies that export their products to other countries. The problem is called export intermodal transportation problem. In the export intermodal transportation problem, goods ordered by overseas customers need to be transported from production plants or warehouses of an export company to the customers destinations overseas. The transportation involves using multiple transportation modes such as trucks and rails for the inland portion and ocean liners for the overseas portion, and its objective is to have the goods moved and the cost minimized subject to various constraints. Cost can be minimized by combining orders from …