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Freight Transport and Distribution

Concepts and Optimisation Models

Tolga Bektas

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English
CRC Press
10 December 2019
This book serves as a primer on freight transportation and logistics, providing a general and broad coverage of concepts, mathematical models and methodologies available for freight transportation planning at strategic, tactical and operational levels. It is aimed at graduate students, and is also a reference book for practitioners in the field.

The book includes preliminaries, such as mathematical modeling and optimisation algorithms. The book also features case studies and practical real-life examples to illustrate applications of the concepts and models covered, and to encourage a hands-on and a practical approach. The author has taught and published extensively in the field and draw on state-of-the-art scientific research. He has also been part of a number of practical research projects, which underpin the real life examples in the book.
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Imprint:   CRC Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9780367870874
ISBN 10:   0367870878
Pages:   288
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Concepts. Location in Networks. Hub Location. Facility Location. Transportation and Service Networks. Multicommodity Network Design. Service Network Design. Short-Haul Freight Transportation. Routing Problems. Traveling Salesman Problems. Vehicle Routing Problems. Integrated Routing Problems. Location-Routing, Inventory-Routing and Production-Routing. Green Freight Distribution. Collaboration in Freight Distribution. Cooperative Game Theory. Methodology.

Tolga Bektas is Professor of Logistics Management at the University of Southampton. He has taken part in a number of practical logistics projects, in collaboration with industrial partners such as Canadian National Railway (Canada) and Rail Safety and Standards Board (UK).

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