Modeling and solving the short-term car rental logistics problem
Logistics management in the car rental business involves short-term decisions about the transportation and deployment of cars with regard to optimizing fleet utilization while maintaining a high service level. We model and solve this problem by means of minimum cost network flow optimization under c...
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| author | Fink, A. Reiners, Torsten |
| author2 | W. Talley |
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| description | Logistics management in the car rental business involves short-term decisions about the transportation and deployment of cars with regard to optimizing fleet utilization while maintaining a high service level. We model and solve this problem by means of minimum cost network flow optimization under consideration of essential practical needs such as multi-period planning, a country-wide network, customized transportation relations, fleeting and defleeting, and car groups with partial substitutability. Experiments were conducted on substantial real-world data, using a simulation model to assess optimization results for different scenarios. The results indicate that the proposed approach can significantly improve efficiency. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-475192017-02-28T01:38:09Z Modeling and solving the short-term car rental logistics problem Fink, A. Reiners, Torsten W. Talley Car rental logistics Transportation in car rental networks Minimum cost network flow model Logistics management in the car rental business involves short-term decisions about the transportation and deployment of cars with regard to optimizing fleet utilization while maintaining a high service level. We model and solve this problem by means of minimum cost network flow optimization under consideration of essential practical needs such as multi-period planning, a country-wide network, customized transportation relations, fleeting and defleeting, and car groups with partial substitutability. Experiments were conducted on substantial real-world data, using a simulation model to assess optimization results for different scenarios. The results indicate that the proposed approach can significantly improve efficiency. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47519 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13665545/42/4 Elsevier restricted |
| spellingShingle | Car rental logistics Transportation in car rental networks Minimum cost network flow model Fink, A. Reiners, Torsten Modeling and solving the short-term car rental logistics problem |
| title | Modeling and solving the short-term car rental logistics problem |
| title_full | Modeling and solving the short-term car rental logistics problem |
| title_fullStr | Modeling and solving the short-term car rental logistics problem |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modeling and solving the short-term car rental logistics problem |
| title_short | Modeling and solving the short-term car rental logistics problem |
| title_sort | modeling and solving the short-term car rental logistics problem |
| topic | Car rental logistics Transportation in car rental networks Minimum cost network flow model |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13665545/42/4 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47519 |