Journal article
Liner shipping single service design problem with arrival time service levels
Flexible services and manufacturing journal, Vol.31(3), pp.620-652
09/15/2019
DOI: 10.1007/s10696-018-9325-y
Abstract
We introduce three mathematical models of increasing complexity for designing liner shipping services that guarantee the punctual arrival of vessels at a specified service level. On-time reliability is an important performance indicator for many liner carriers, but current approaches for creating new routes in liner shipping networks do not consider data-driven uncertainty. We perform an empirical analysis of vessel travel times in a real liner shipping network to develop probability distributions that we use within novel, chance-constrained mathematical models for liner shipping service design. Our models are also the first to support variable vessel speeds for service design. In our experiments, we use real-world data from 22 liner shipping routes and evaluate the designed services using a simulation procedure that demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach for reducing lateness. We show that our models can be effectively used for decision support at a tactical level not only for designing services, but also potentially for negotiating maximum demand transit times and prices with customers.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Liner shipping single service design problem with arrival time service levels
- Creators
- Kevin Tierney - 0000 0001 0944 9128 grid.7491.b Decision and Operation Technologies Group Bielefeld University Bielefeld GermanyJan Ehmke - 0000 0001 1018 4307 grid.5807.a Management Science Group Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg Magdeburg GermanyAnn Campbell - 0000 0004 1936 8294 grid.214572.7 Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business University of Iowa Iowa City 52242 USADaniel Müller - 0000 0001 0940 2872 grid.5659.f Decision Support and Operations Research Lab University of Paderborn Paderborn Germany
- Contributors
- Kjetil Fagerholt (Editor)Kap Hwan Kim (Editor)Qiang Meng (Editor)Julio César Góez (Editor)Frank Meisel (Editor)Magnus Stålhane (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Flexible services and manufacturing journal, Vol.31(3), pp.620-652
- Publisher
- Springer US
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10696-018-9325-y
- ISSN
- 1936-6582
- eISSN
- 1936-6590
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/15/2019
- Academic Unit
- Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984083238002771
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