Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics

Department of Business Administration

Chair of Production and Operations Management
(Lehrstuhl für Produktion und Logistik)
o. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Richard F. Hartl

 040661 KFK PM/SCM/TL: 

Seminar A (E)
4 ECTS points

"Collaborative Transportation Planning"

Lecturer

Dates & Places

  • Tuesday 4:00-6:00 p.m. (Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 SR 1)
  • Starting on October 8 , 2013

Study Programs

  • Mag. internationale Betriebswirtschaft (KFK Production Management,  KFK SupplyChain Management, KFK Transportation Logistics)
  • Mag. Betriebswirtschaft (KFK Production Management,  KFK Supply Chain Management, KFK Transportation Logistics)
  • partly also KFK Operations Research

Course Content

  • This course (Seminar) will focus on "Collaborative Transportation Planning". 
  • The basic model for the underlying planning problem is the "Pickup and delivery problem" where goods have to transported from pickup locations to delivery locations. Several such requests can be on the same truck and transportation need not be on the shortest path.
  • In "Collaborative Transportation Planning", several transportation companies are considered and each transportation company need not perform all its transportation requests by themselves. Rather, they can exchange these requests through auctions or bilateral negotiations.
  • The course will focus on the challenges for making this concept operational, and discuss recent research papers in this area.

Requirements

  • Regular presence and participation in discussion
  • Literature study
  • Presentation using slides (power Point or PDF)
  • Term paper (Seminararbeit)

Prerequisites

  • This course (Seminar) is intended as the final course in a KFK. Thus, it should only be taken after some other courses in the corresponding area have been successfully completed.
  • Since the topic is related to "Transportation Logistics", would help if this course had been taken before. This is, however, not necessary.
  • Minimum requirement for admission is
    •  the course „Operations Management“ (very old "Studienplan") or 
    • "Transportation Logistics (TL)", "Production Analysis", or "Supply Chain Management" (current "Studienplan")

Basic Literature 

  • Basic literature for the underlying "Pickup and delivery problem" is 

    Parragh, S.N., Doerner, K.F., Hartl, R.F. (2008), A survey on pickup and delivery problems. Part II: Transportation between pickup and delivery locations. Journal für Betriebswirtschaft, 58 (2, June), 81–117.  >> PDF
  • Basic literature for "Collaborative Transportation Planning" is 

    Krajewska, M., & Kopfer, H. (2006). Collaborating freight forwarding enterprises: request allocation and profit sharing. OR Spectrum, 28, 301-317.  
    >> PDF

    Krajewska, M., Kopfer, H., Laporte, G., Ropke, S., & Zaccour, G. (2008).
    Horizontal cooperation of freight carriers: request allocation and profit sharing. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 59, 1483- 1491.  >> PDF

    Kopfer, H., & Pankratz, G. (1999). Das Groupage-Problem kooperierender Verkehrsträger. In. Operations Research Proceedings, Vol. 1998 (pp. 453 -462). Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.  
    >> PDF

Schedule "Würfelteil"

  • The first part of the course is a so called "Würfelseminar", i.e. certain topics are to be prepared by all participants. Every 10 minutes, say, a different person will be asked (at random -> Würfel) to present the next pages of the underlying literature. The purpose is
        (i) to obtain some common knowledge base by all participants, and 
        (ii) to facilitate discussion.
  • Literature for the "Würfelseminar": see "basic literature" above
  • Tentative schedule: 
  • October 15: basic literature for "Pickup and delivery problem": 
    Parragh et al. R.F. (2008); chapters 1 and 2 - see Basic Literature  above 
  • October 22 - November 5: basic literature for "Collaborative Transportation Planning"
    Krajewska and Kopfer (2006) - see Basic Literature  above 

Schedule "Spezialteil"

In the second part each group of typically 2 participants will be given a special topic which has to be prepared and presented some weeks later (mainly in January). Also a term paper (Seminararbeit) must be written on this topic.


TOPIC

TEAM

Carrier strategies / exchange mechanism

Özener, OÖ, Ergun, Ö, Savelsbergh, M,
Lane-Exchange Mechanisms for Truckload Carrier Collaboration,
Transportation Science, Vol. 45 (1), pp. 1–17, 2011. >> pdf

Tekiner, Atilla, 0609456, 
Osheiko, Volodymyr, 1249235

Dec 17, 2013

Hernandez, S, Peeta, S, Kalafatas, G,
A less-than-truckload carrier collaboration planning problem under dynamic capacities,
Transportation Research Part E, vol. 47, pp. 933-946, 2011. >> pdf

Mihaylov, Anguel, 0626597
CANCELLED

Püttmann, C, Stadtler, H, A collaborative planning approach for intermodal freight transportation, OR Spectrum, vol. 32, pp. 809–830, 2010. >> pdf

Ahmeti, Shkodran, 0851254
Budai, Christian, 0609842
Jan 21, 2014
(11 a.m. Besprechungszimmer Hartl, 6th floor)

Combinatorial auctions

Song J,
Combinatorial Auctions for Transportation Service Procurement: The Carrier Perspective,
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Vol. 1833, pp. 40-46, 2007. >> pdf

Aleksanyan, Anna, 0609668,
Fedorovych, Oleksandra, 0808893
Jan 21, 2014
(3 p.m. Besprechungszimmer Hartl, 6th floor)

Berger S, Bierwirth C,
Solutions to the request reassignment problem in collaborative carrier networks,
Transportation Research Part E, vol. 46, pp. 627–638, 2010.  >> pdf

Akgul, Isil Basak, 1147676,
Munoz Davila, Julian David,0928003
Jan 16, 2014 (4 p.m.) Seminarraum 2

Wang, X, Kopfer, H,
Collaborative transportation planning of less-than-truckload freight: A route-based request exchange mechanism,
OR Spectrum, to appear, 2013. (DOI 10.1007/s00291-013-0331-x) >> pdf

Eckhardt, Daniela, 0902447,
Kisa, Pinar, 0708752
Jan 21, 2014

Task selection & routing

Liu, R, Jiang, Z, Fung, RYK, Feng, C, Liu, X,
Two-phase heuristic algorithms for full truckloads multi-depot capacitated vehicle routing problem in carrier collaboration,
Computers & Operations Research, vol. 37, pp. 950-959, 2010. >> pdf

Dragomir, Alina-Gabriela, 0900463,
Ivanova, Marina Stiliyanova, 0907762
Jan 14, 2014

Liu, R, Jiang, Z, Liu, Chen, F,
Task selection and routing problems in collaborative truckload transportation,
Transportation Research Part E, vol. 46, pp. 1071-1085, 2010. >> pdf

Weißensteiner, Barbara, 0900371
Jan 21, 2014

Backup papers

Sprenger, R, Mönch, L,
A methodology to solve large-scale cooperative transportation planning problems,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 223, pp. 626–636, 2012. >>
pdf

backup

Hernandez, S, Unnikrishnan A, Awale, SS,
Centralized Carrier Collaboration Multihub Location Problem for Less-Than-Truckload Industry,
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2269, pp. 20–28, 2012.  >>  pdf

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Term paper (Seminararbeit)

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