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Optimization Models for Decision Support at Motorail Terminals

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Operations Research Proceedings 2015

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Motorail transportation covers the loading of various types of vehicles onto transportation wagons. The detailed treatment of realistic technical and legal constraints by integer linear programming models is challenging especially in terms of computation times. This paper considers decision support for the loading process at motorail terminals with the goal of speeding up the entire loading process while guaranteeing the feasibility of the proposed loading plan at all times. Specially tailored integer programming formulations are proposed and their suitability for real-world use is evaluated by means of a case study.

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  1. Chair of Operations Research and Accounting, Faculty of Management and Economics, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Pascal Lutter

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Karl Franz Dörner

  2. Decision Sciences and Statistics (IDS) Department, ESSEC Business School of Paris, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    Ivana Ljubic

  3. Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Georg Pflug

  4. Operations Research and Control Systems, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Gernot Tragler

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Lutter, P. (2017). Optimization Models for Decision Support at Motorail Terminals. In: Dörner, K., Ljubic, I., Pflug, G., Tragler, G. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2015. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42902-1_28

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