A Log-Truck Scheduling Model Applied to a Belgian Forest Company
(2016) ILS′2016 : Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain — Location: Bordeaux, France (1.June.2016)
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- Timber transportation is a major activity in the forest industry and leads to challenging operational research problems. In this paper, we study a log-truck scheduling problem that aims at designing the weekly schedule for the transportation of timber from harvest to demand points. In this problem, drivers start and end their working day at home and have a limited working time per day. The quantity available in harvest points is typically several truckloads and full truckloads are thus supposed. To model this problem, we propose an integer program which does not consider the order in which forests are visited by a driver, simplifying its solution. The log-truck scheduling problem we are analyzing has been inspired by the case of a Belgian forest company. The results of our model on this industrial case are given, showing significant improvement compared to the actual schedule used by the company.
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Louvain School of Management Operations and Information
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Tancrez, J.-S. (2016). A Log-Truck Scheduling Model Applied to a Belgian Forest Company. ILS′2016 : Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain, Bordeaux, France. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/185633