A dispatching decision support system for countering delay propagation in intermodal logistics networks

作者：Chen Cheng Chieh^*; Schonfeld Paul

来源：Transportation Planning and Technology, 2016, 39(3): 254-268.

DOI：10.1080/03081060.2016.1142222

• schedule coordination
• dispatching model
• decision support system
• Intermodal logistics
• delay propagations

This paper specifies a dispatching decision support system devoted to managing intermodal logistics operations while countering delay and delay propagation. When service disruptions occur within a logistics network where schedule coordination is employed, a dispatching control model determines through an optimization process whether each ready outbound vehicle should be dispatched immediately or held to wait for some late incoming vehicles. Decisions should consider potential missed-connection costs that may occur not only at the next transfer terminals but also at hubs located further downstream. Numerical examples and a sensitivity analysis with different slack time settings for attenuating delay propagation are presented.

• 出版日期2016-4-2
• 单位东华大学