Freight Transport and Distribution: Concepts and Optimisation Models

This book serves as a primer on freight transportation and logistics, providing a general and broad coverage of concepts, mathematical models and methodologies available for freight transportation planning at strategic, tactical and operational levels. It is aimed at graduate students, and is also a reference book for practitioners in the field. The book includes preliminaries, such as mathematical modeling and optimisation algorithms. The book also features case studies and practical real-life examples to illustrate applications of the concepts and models covered, and to encourage a hands-on and a practical approach. The author has taught and published extensively in the field and draw on state-of-the-art scientific research. He has also been part of a number of practical research projects, which underpin the real life examples in the book.

• | Author: Tolga Bektas
• | Publisher: CRC Press
• | Publication Date: December 10, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 267 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367870878
• | ISBN-13: 9780367870874