IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/inm/ortrsc/v32y1998i2p174-188.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Optimizing Auto-Carrier Loading

Author

Listed:
  • Gerald Y. Agbegha

    (Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina 28216)

  • Ronald H. Ballou

    (Department of Operations Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106)

  • Kamlesh Mathur

    (Department of Operations Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106)

Abstract

Delivering automobiles, vans, and trucks to auto dealerships is a unique problem among the routing and scheduling problem class. A subproblem is that of loading the vehicles onto an auto-carrier (equipment specially designed for this purpose). Allocation of the vehicles to this equipment has typically been done by means of trial and error and heuristic methods. This paper shows how the loading aspect of the delivery problem can be solved using optimizing methods. The approach has the potential of replacing the empirical methods currently used in practice.

Suggested Citation

  • Gerald Y. Agbegha & Ronald H. Ballou & Kamlesh Mathur, 1998. "Optimizing Auto-Carrier Loading," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 32(2), pages 174-188, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:32:y:1998:i:2:p:174-188
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.32.2.174
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.32.2.174
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1287/trsc.32.2.174?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Eugene L. Lawler, 1963. "The Quadratic Assignment Problem," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 9(4), pages 586-599, July.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Cordeau, Jean-François & Dell’Amico, Mauro & Falavigna, Simone & Iori, Manuel, 2015. "A rolling horizon algorithm for auto-carrier transportation," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 68-80.
    2. Mauro Dell’Amico & Simone Falavigna & Manuel Iori, 2015. "Optimization of a Real-World Auto-Carrier Transportation Problem," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 49(2), pages 402-419, May.
    3. Chen, Feng & Wang, Yu, 2020. "Downward compatible loading optimization with inter-set cost in automobile outbound logistics," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 287(1), pages 106-118.
    4. Mattfeld, D. C. & Kopfer, H., 2003. "Terminal operations management in vehicle transshipment," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 37(5), pages 435-452, June.
    5. Jäck, Christian & Gönsch, Jochen, 2024. "How to load your auto carrier. A hybrid packing approach for the auto-carrier loading problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 315(3), pages 1167-1181.
    6. Sun, Yanshuo & Kirtonia, Sajeeb & Chen, Zhi-Long, 2021. "A survey of finished vehicle distribution and related problems from an optimization perspective," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 149(C).
    7. Christian Billing & Florian Jaehn & Thomas Wensing, 2018. "A multiperiod auto-carrier transportation problem with probabilistic future demands," Journal of Business Economics, Springer, vol. 88(7), pages 1009-1028, September.
    8. Wang, Yu & Chen, Feng & Chen, Zhi-Long, 2018. "Pickup and delivery of automobiles from warehouses to dealers," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 117(PA), pages 412-430.
    9. Saurabh Chandra & Debabrata Ghosh & Samir K. Srivastava, 2016. "Outbound logistics management practices in the automotive industry: an emerging economy perspective," DECISION: Official Journal of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Springer;Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, vol. 43(2), pages 145-165, June.
    10. Kim, Jindae & Ok, Chang-Soo & Kumara, Soundar & Yee, Shang-Tae, 2010. "A market-based approach for dynamic vehicle deployment planning using radio frequency identification (RFID) information," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 128(1), pages 235-247, November.
    11. Bonassa, Antonio Carlos & Cunha, Claudio Barbieri da & Isler, Cassiano Augusto, 2023. "A multi-start local search heuristic for the multi-period auto-carrier loading and transportation problem in Brazil," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 307(1), pages 193-211.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mohammad Javad Feizollahi & Igor Averbakh, 2014. "The Robust (Minmax Regret) Quadratic Assignment Problem with Interval Flows," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 26(2), pages 321-335, May.
    2. Wu, Xin (Bruce) & Lu, Jiawei & Wu, Shengnan & Zhou, Xuesong (Simon), 2021. "Synchronizing time-dependent transportation services: Reformulation and solution algorithm using quadratic assignment problem," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 140-179.
    3. Rostami, Borzou & Chassein, André & Hopf, Michael & Frey, Davide & Buchheim, Christoph & Malucelli, Federico & Goerigk, Marc, 2018. "The quadratic shortest path problem: complexity, approximability, and solution methods," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 268(2), pages 473-485.
    4. Bolte, Andreas & Thonemann, Ulrich Wilhelm, 1996. "Optimizing simulated annealing schedules with genetic programming," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 92(2), pages 402-416, July.
    5. Yunpeng Sun & Ruoya Jia & Asif Razzaq & Qun Bao, 2023. "RETRACTED ARTICLE: Drivers of China’s geographical renewable energy development: evidence from spatial association network structure approaches," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 56(6), pages 4115-4163, December.
    6. Dorndorf, Ulrich & Drexl, Andreas & Nikulin, Yury & Pesch, Erwin, 2005. "Flight gate scheduling: State-of-the-art and recent developments," Manuskripte aus den Instituten für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Kiel 584, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre.
    7. Michael J. Brusco & Douglas Steinley & Ashley L. Watts, 2022. "Disentangling relationships in symptom networks using matrix permutation methods," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 87(1), pages 133-155, March.
    8. Matteo Fischetti & Michele Monaci & Domenico Salvagnin, 2012. "Three Ideas for the Quadratic Assignment Problem," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 60(4), pages 954-964, August.
    9. Chiang, Wen-Chyuan & Kouvelis, Panagiotis & Urban, Timothy L., 2006. "Single- and multi-objective facility layout with workflow interference considerations," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 174(3), pages 1414-1426, November.
    10. Caprara, Alberto, 2008. "Constrained 0-1 quadratic programming: Basic approaches and extensions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 187(3), pages 1494-1503, June.
    11. Kazuhiro Tsuchiya & Sunil Bharitkar & Yoshiyasu Takefuji, 1996. "A neural network approach to facility layout problems," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 89(3), pages 556-563, March.
    12. Arora, Shalini & Puri, M. C., 1998. "A variant of time minimizing assignment problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 110(2), pages 314-325, October.
    13. Jerzy Grobelny & Rafal Michalski, 2016. "A concept of a flexible approach to the facilities layout problems in logistics systems," WORking papers in Management Science (WORMS) WORMS/16/11, Department of Operations Research and Business Intelligence, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.
    14. Punnen, Abraham P. & Wang, Yang, 2016. "The bipartite quadratic assignment problem and extensions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 250(3), pages 715-725.
    15. Abdelaziz, Fouad Ben & Maddah, Bacel & Flamand, Tülay & Azar, Jimmy, 2024. "Store-Wide space planning balancing impulse and convenience," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 312(1), pages 211-226.
    16. Pentico, David W., 2007. "Assignment problems: A golden anniversary survey," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 176(2), pages 774-793, January.
    17. Hao Hu & Renata Sotirov, 2021. "The linearization problem of a binary quadratic problem and its applications," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 307(1), pages 229-249, December.
    18. Kim, J. -Y. & Kim, Y. -D., 1995. "Graph theoretic heuristics for unequal-sized facility layout problems," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 23(4), pages 391-401, August.
    19. Vittorio Maniezzo, 1999. "Exact and Approximate Nondeterministic Tree-Search Procedures for the Quadratic Assignment Problem," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 11(4), pages 358-369, November.
    20. Tansel, Barbaros C. & Bilen, Canan, 1998. "Move based heuristics for the unidirectional loop network layout problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 108(1), pages 36-48, July.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:32:y:1998:i:2:p:174-188. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Asher (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/inforea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.