CAREER: Strategies to Improve Goods Movement: Operational Choice in Routing

职业：改善货物流动的策略：路线中的操作选择

• 批准号: 0348622
• 负责人: Karen Smilowitz
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0348622&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Strategies; Improve; Goods; Movement

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) research proposes to provide funding to develop operating strategies for goods movement. In particular, the research explores the impact of introducing operational choice into vehicle routing and scheduling. The research considers a diverse set of applications in routing for goods movement in both industry and non-profit agencies, including intermodal drayage operations and interlibrary loan delivery, with the common theme of developing and evaluating innovative strategies. These applications involve similar core optimization problems involving vehicle routing and scheduling with operational choice and illustrate the inherent tradeoffs from introducing increased choice. Allowing more flexibility in transportation systems can lead to increased logistics efficiency; yet, introducing flexibility in modeling and solution phases is challenging, as the scope and complexity of the optimization problems expand. This project will design and analyze algorithms to solve the resulting optimization problems. Longer-term plans include the study of broader issues related to the value of choice in terms of efficiency gains, as well as the complexities of introducing choice into difficult problems. The educational components of this CAREER program include hands-on student learning, interactive coursework, and programs that foster diversity in engineering. This proposal includes initiatives to promote student involvement in transportation research for women and minorities.If successful, this research will improve the efficiency of distribution systems for goods movement in a variety of applications. In addition, the results of this career program can be extended well beyond transportation. The main output of this research will be a set of methodological tools that can be used by others for different applications.

该学院的早期职业发展（CAREER）研究建议提供资金来制定货物运输的运营策略。 该研究特别探讨了将运营选择引入车辆路线和调度的影响。 该研究考虑了行业和非营利机构中货物运输路线的多种应用，包括多式联运操作和馆际互借交付，其共同主题是制定和评估创新策略。 这些应用涉及类似的核心优化问题，涉及车辆路线和调度以及操作选择，并说明了引入更多选择的固有权衡。提高运输系统的灵活性可以提高物流效率；然而，随着优化问题的范围和复杂性的扩大，在建模和解决方案阶段引入灵活性具有挑战性。 该项目将设计和分析算法来解决由此产生的优化问题。 长期计划包括研究与选择在效率增益方面的价值相关的更广泛问题，以及将选择引入困难问题的复杂性。 该职业计划的教育组成部分包括学生实践学习、互动课程以及促进工程多样性的计划。 该提案包括促进学生参与女性和少数族裔交通研究的举措。如果成功，这项研究将提高各种应用中货物运输分配系统的效率。 此外，该职业计划的成果可以远远超出交通运输领域。 这项研究的主要成果将是一套可供其他人用于不同应用的方法工具。