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Optimizing deadhead movements.

Publication: Operations Research
Publication Date: 01-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Most large freight transportation service providers worry about the cost-effective management of empty resources over time. Transporters typically serve load requests that are imbalanced in both time and space. Thus, when a resource, such as a container, arrives at the destination of a loaded move, there may not be...

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