Container logistics decision making under uncertainty
不確定環境下的集裝箱物流決策
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Abstract
Owing to standardized structure and sizes, containers offer obvious advantages
for the rationalization of shipment, of security, of handling facilities and
procedures and of multi-modal transportation. Since the 1960s, containerization
of cargo transportation has been the norm in global logistics services.
Containers are now playing a key role in the globalization of business.
The objective of our study is emphasizing on the analytical thinking and
quantitative analysis to the container logistics under uncertain environment.
Our primal objective is to provide a board study to the problems in the
container logistics domain. This is not only to study existing problems in literature,
but also to contribute by incorporating new view-points to the problem
modelling. In addition, we would also be interested to have a balanced
work between theoretical development and business applications. Our second
objective is to contribute novel solution scheme in the area of stochastic
programming, which is our major tool to solve problems of decision making
under uncertainty.
Specifically, novel mathematical models have been introduced for the important
decision making problems namely: container terminal storage problems,
freight forwarding problems, container liner revenue management problems.
- Uncertainty, Containerization, Decision making, Management, Freight and freightage, Business logistics