@article{484fcbcf984c4b3896a575dedf36dc29,
title = "The planning and real-time adjustment of courier routing and scheduling under stochastic travel times and demands",
abstract = "This study develops a planning and a real-time adjustment model to plan courier routes and schedules in an urban area and to adjust the planned routes in actual operations. The stochastic travel time aspect of the problem has been addressed at both the planning stage and the operation stage. A heuristic is developed to efficiently solve the stochastic real-time adjustment model and a simulation-based evaluation method is also developed to compare the performance of the proposed models. The test results, related to an international express company's operations, show the good performance of the proposed models.",
keywords = "Courier scheduling, Stochastic travel times, Time-space network, Uncertain demand",
author = "Shangyao Yan and Lin, {Jenn Rong} and Lai, {Chun Wei}",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by a Grant ( NSC-101-2221-E-008-097-MY3 ) from the National Science Council of Taiwan . We thank the unnamed international express company for providing the test data and for their valuable opinions. We also thank the editor and the anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions on the presentation of the paper.",
year = "2013",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.tre.2013.01.011",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
volume = "53",
pages = "34--48",
journal = "Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review",
issn = "1366-5545",
number = "1",
}