Transportation Logistics (Bachelor Program)

(Prof. Dr. Stefan Minner & Christoph Kerscher)
Monday 15:00-16:30 & Tuesday 15:00-16:30

Course description

The course covers the following topics:
- Transportation problem
- Traveling salesman problem
- Vehicle routing problems
- Arc routing problems
- Inventory routing and location routing
- Metaheuristics
- Hub-spoke and intermodal transportation
- Shortest path, max flow, spanning trees
- Route choice
- Cutting and packing
Course material is available on Moodle

Learning objectives

The objective is to get an overview of the modeling techniques, exact as well as heuristic search methods tailored to the different transportation problems studied.

Methods

The course consists of a sequence of lectures, exercise classes and case studies. Further, the participants will learn how to model and analyze transportation problems using quantitative methods.

Literature

Toth, P., Vigo, D. (2014), Vehicle Routing – Problems, Methods, and Applications, 2nd ed., Siam
Hillier, F., Lieberman, G. (2015), Introduction to Operations Research, 10th ed., McGraw-Hill
Labadie, Prins, Prodhon (2016) Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems, 1st ed., Wiley
Deroussi (2016) Metaheuristics for Logistics, 1st ed., Wiley
Ballou, R.H. (2004), Business Logistics/Supply Chain Management, 5th ed., Pearson
Ghiani, G., Laporte, G., Musmanno, R. (2013), Introduction to Logistics Systems Management, 2nd ed., Wiley
Sinha, K.C., Labi, S. (2007), Transportation Decision Making, Wiley