Freight Transport and Distribution: Concepts and Optimisation Models - Hardcover

Bektas, Tolga

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1482258706 ISBN 13: 9781482258707

Publisher: CRC Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Tolga Bektas is Professor of Logistics Management at the University of Southampton. He has taken part in a number of practical logistics projects, in collaboration with industrial partners such as Canadian National Railway (Canada) and Rail Safety and Standards Board (UK).

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1482258706
• ISBN 13: 9781482258707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 267