FREIGHT TRANSPORT AND DISTRIBUTION CONCEPTS AND OPTIMISATION MODELS

This book serves as a primer on freight transportation and logistics, providing 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 optimization 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 practical approach. The author has taught and published extensively in the field and draws on state-of-the-art scientific research. He has also been part of several practical research projects, which underpin the real-life examples in the book. Features Offer state-of-the-art coverage of freight transportation • Takes a textbook approach, with a wide coverage of case studies and examples