S.U.K Rohmer

Freight consolidation through carrier collaboration – A cooperative game

  • Fabio Mercurio
  • Tom Van Woensel
  • S.U.K Rohmer
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Game Theory, Transportation Tags , , , ,

    Reducing inefficient truck movements, this research investigates the potential of freight consolidation through carrier collaboration. Considering the financial benefits of consolidation and the additional cost arising from collaboration, we propose a cooperative game to explore under which circumstances carriers can collaborate. We show that stable cost allocations are not always possible, affecting stability and thus … Read more

    Cooperative locker locations games

  • Fabio Mercurio
  • Tom Van Woensel
  • S.U.K Rohmer
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Game Theory, Other Topics Tags , ,

    More and more people are ordering products online, having their parcels delivered to their homes. This leads to more congestion, which negatively impacts the environment as well as public health and safety. To reduce these negative impacts, carriers can use parcel lockers to consolidate and serve their customers. The implementation of a locker network can, … Read more

    Production Routing for Perishable Products

  • Aldair Álvarez
  • Pedro Miranda
  • S.U.K Rohmer
    • Categories Combinatorial Optimization, Production and Logistics Tags , , , ,

    This paper introduces the production routing problem for perishable products with fixed shelf life and gradual decay, where the age of products impacts the price that can be obtained when satisfying customer demands. In this problem, a single supplier is responsible for the production and distribution of perishable products to a set of customers. Fixed … Read more