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Shipment in a multi-choice environment: a case study of shipping carriers in US

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  • Shalabh Singh

    (Indian Institute of Management Raipur)

  • Sonia Singh

    (Indian Institute of Management, Prabandh Nagar)

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This research paper studies a bi-objective multi-choice scenario faced by a decision maker while shipping packets across a transportation network. A varying range of carriers with multiple time and cost options give rise to multi-choice parameters. In order to equip the decision maker for solving this multi-choice time–cost trade-off scenario, a multi-choice bi-objective transportation problem with fuzzy as well as crisp parameters is modeled. Firstly, a fuzzy transportation problem covering time critical services from a single shipping carrier is solved with the objective of minimizing total shipment cost along with the makespan. Further, the same problem has been analyzed considering multiple carriers for non-time critical services. The algorithms are validated on a use case covering ten major cities of the US with the time–cost data from UPS, FedEx and USPS.

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  • Shalabh Singh & Sonia Singh, 2022. "Shipment in a multi-choice environment: a case study of shipping carriers in US," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 30(4), pages 1195-1219, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:cejnor:v:30:y:2022:i:4:d:10.1007_s10100-021-00757-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s10100-021-00757-2
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