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Essays On Applications Of Transportation Network Design And Optimization, Amirali Ghaharikermani
Essays On Applications Of Transportation Network Design And Optimization, Amirali Ghaharikermani
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation, we address different transportation problems. The three main outcomes are: designing a battery swap station network, studying gaps in Empty Container Management literature, designing a model with similar characteristics to the vehicle routing problem as well as implementation scenario for it to be applied for a real-world case.
For the designed battery swap station, a model is developed for customer demand satisfaction that permits construction of different types of BSS in the planning network. Our solution methodology is a Tabu Search algorithm combined with a dynamic programming initialization. Numerous tests showed that the proposed TS approach provides …