This book considers daily operations management for a fleet of trucks providing
container pickup and delivery service to a port. Truck congestion at access
points to ports may lead to serious inefficiencies in drayage operations, and
the resultant cost impact to the intermodal supply chain can be significant.
Responding to growing access congestion and its resultant impacts, many
U.S. port terminals have implemented appointment systems, but little is
known about the impact of such systems on drayage productivity. This book
seeks to develop optimization approaches for maximizing the...