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Cost-stable truck scheduling at a cross-dock facility with unknown truck arrivals: A meta-heuristic approach

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  • Konur, Dinçer
  • Golias, Mihalis M.

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We study a cross-dock operator’s truck scheduling problem at inbound doors in case of unknown truck arrival times. Due to uncertainty of truck arrivals, a scheduling strategy is subject to variations in costs of serving the trucks. A cost-stable scheduling strategy is defined as a schedule with low variation levels. In this paper, we analyze the cross-dock operator’s problem of determining a cost-stable scheduling strategy while minimizing the average of total service costs. A bi-objective bi-level optimization problem is formulated and we discuss a genetic algorithm based heuristic to find Pareto efficient schedules. The proposed approach is compared to first-come-first-served policies.

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  • Konur, Dinçer & Golias, Mihalis M., 2013. "Cost-stable truck scheduling at a cross-dock facility with unknown truck arrivals: A meta-heuristic approach," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 49(1), pages 71-91.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transe:v:49:y:2013:i:1:p:71-91
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2012.06.007
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