Pickup and delivery selection problem

Abstract

This paper focuses on the modelling of carrier decisions within an activity-based freight transportation model. To model freight transport, the different actors who are included in the decision making process have to be represented. One of these actors is the carrier. This paper formulates the decisions of the carrier as a selective pickup and delivery problem. To be able to better represent the influence of carrier decisions on the logistic module within an activity based freight transportation model. The objective is to maximize the profit gained, by selecting transport requests. A local search heuristic is presented to solve the problem.