Optimisation in Synchromodal Logistics: From Theory to Practice

This book introduces the advances in synchromodal logistics and provides a framework to classify various optimisation problems in this field. It explores the application of this framework to solve a broad range of problems, such as problems with and without a central decision-maker, problems with and without full information, deterministic problems, problems coping with uncertainty, optimisation of a full network design problem. It covers theoretical constructs, such as discrete optimisation, robust optimisation, optimisation under uncertainty, multi-objective optimisation and agent based equilibrium models. Moreover, practical elaborated use cases are presented to deepen understanding.

The book gives both researchers and practitioners a good overview of the field of synchromodal optimisation problems and offers the reader practical methods for modelling and problem-solving.

Frank Phillipson is Senior Scientist at TNO and Professor of Operations Research at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. In addition to solving optimization issues for logistics, telecommunications and military applications, he is responsible for research on algorithms for and applications of quantum computers in the field of optimization and machine learning within TNO.