Fleet Telematics (eBook)

Preface 7
Executive summary 8
Contents 9
About the author 13
1 Introduction 14
1.1 Motivation 14
1.2 Purpose of this work 15
1.3 Overview 17
2 Telematics 20
2.1 Introduction 20
2.2 Enabling technologies 21
2.3 Transport telematics 37
3 Commercial vehicle operations 44
3.1 Introduction 44
3.2 Development of road freight transport 44
3.3 Fundamentals of road freight transportation 49
3.4 Management levels 60
3.5 Operational and real-time tasks 62
3.6 Case study 68
4 Management information systems 72
4.1 Introduction 72
4.2 A typical legacy information system 73
4.3 Potentials of telematics 77
4.4 The telematics-enabled information system 84
4.5 Implementation and case study 100
5 Models for routing a fleet of commercial vehicles 107
5.1 Introduction 107
5.2 The Vehicle Routing Problem 109
5.3 The Pickup and Delivery Problem 115
5.4 The General Vehicle Routing Problem 117
5.5 Drivers’ working hours 122
5.6 Case study 127
6 Dynamic vehicle routing 131
6.1 Introduction 131
6.2 Dynamic vs. static planning 132
6.3 State of the art 136
6.4 Neighbourhood operators 140
6.5 Insertion methods 150
6.6 Reduced Variable Neighbourhood Search 155
6.7 Large Neighbourhood Search 157
6.8 Evaluation and case study 163
7 Conclusions 170
7.1 Summary 170
7.2 Scientific contributions 171
7.3 Future research 172
References 173
Abbreviations 183
Symbols 186
Index 189