TY - GEN
T1 - Simulation-based control for green transportation with high delivery service
AU - Lee, Seokgi
AU - Prabhu, Vittaldas V.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Shipping operations are facing increasing pressures for tighter delivery service levels and green transportation, which conflict with each other and requires trade-off between fuel consumption and delivery service. Furthermore, responsiveness to customer demand requires rapid generation of good quality solutions. This paper presents a simulation-based feedback control algorithm for real-time vehicle route planning which considers delivery timeliness and fuel efficiency. The proposed control theoretic algorithm uses feedback from simulation to adjust the planned routes for timeliness and adaptively adjust the vehicle speed within an allowable range to improve fuel efficiency. The formulation results in a multi-variable continuous variable control system with non-linear dynamics. The control algorithm extends prior work in distributed arrival time control, which is used as a basis to derive analytical insights into this computational intractable optimization problem. Performance of the algorithm is evaluated using a simulation model of an industrial distribution center.
AB - Shipping operations are facing increasing pressures for tighter delivery service levels and green transportation, which conflict with each other and requires trade-off between fuel consumption and delivery service. Furthermore, responsiveness to customer demand requires rapid generation of good quality solutions. This paper presents a simulation-based feedback control algorithm for real-time vehicle route planning which considers delivery timeliness and fuel efficiency. The proposed control theoretic algorithm uses feedback from simulation to adjust the planned routes for timeliness and adaptively adjust the vehicle speed within an allowable range to improve fuel efficiency. The formulation results in a multi-variable continuous variable control system with non-linear dynamics. The control algorithm extends prior work in distributed arrival time control, which is used as a basis to derive analytical insights into this computational intractable optimization problem. Performance of the algorithm is evaluated using a simulation model of an industrial distribution center.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSC.2010.5678867
DO - 10.1109/WSC.2010.5678867
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79951650679
SN - 9781424498666
T3 - Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
SP - 2046
EP - 2056
BT - Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC'10
T2 - 2010 43rd Winter Simulation Conference, WSC'10
Y2 - 5 December 2010 through 8 December 2010
ER -