Scheduling Short-Term Marine Transport of Bulk Products

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dc.contributor.authorBausch, Dan
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Gerald G.
dc.contributor.authorRonen, David
dc.contributor.departmentOperations Research (OR)
dc.date1998
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-09T22:21:08Z
dc.date.available2014-01-09T22:21:08Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.descriptionMaritime Policy & Management, 25, pp. 335-348.en_US
dc.description.abstractA multinational company uses a personal computer to schedule a fleet of coastal tankers and barges transporting liquid bulk products among plants, distribution centres (tank farms), and industrial customers. A simple spreadsheet interface cloaks a sophisticated optimization-based decision support system and makes this system useable via a variety of natural languages. The dispatchers, whose native language is not English, and some of whom presumably speak no English at all, communicate via the spreadsheet, and view recommended schedules displayed in Gantt charts-both internationally familiar tools. Inside the spreadsheet, a highly detailed simulation can generate every feasible alternate vessel employment schedule, and an integer linear set partitioning model selects one schedule for each vessel so that all loads and deliveries are completed at minimal cost while satisfying all operational requirements. The optimized fleet employment schedule is displayed graphically with hourly time resolution over a planning horizon of 2-3 weeks. Each vessel will customarily make several voyages and many port calls to load and unload products during this time.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBausch, D., Brown, G.G., and Ronen, D., 1998, “Scheduling Short-Term Marine Transport of Bulk Products,” Maritime Policy & Management, 25, pp. 335-348.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/38117
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.titleScheduling Short-Term Marine Transport of Bulk Productsen_US
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