Characterizing the tradeoffs and costs associated with transportation congestion in supply chains.

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• Alternative Title:
  Final report to the Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation (CMS)
• Creators:
  Geunes, Joseph ; Konur, Dincer
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Florida. Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic congestion
  • Logistics
  • Physical distribution
  • Mathematical models
  • Business logistics--Costs--Mathematical models
  • Physical distribution of goods--Costs--Mathematical models
  • Traffic congestion--Mathematical models.
• Publication/ Report Number:
  2008-004
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Florida. Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation
• Abstract:
  We consider distribution and location-planning models for supply chains that explicitly ; account for traffic congestion effects. The majority of facility location and transportation ; planning models in the operations research literature consider facility operations and ; transportation costs as separable (e.g., linear) by origin-destination pairs. Our goal is to ; understand how congestion costs and effects, which are not separable, influence supply chain ; location and distribution decisions. We study a competitive facility location and market-supply ; game with multiple firms competing in multiple markets in a congested distribution network. As ; a result of location and quantity decisions, firms are subject to location-specific transportation ; costs, convex traffic congestion costs and fixed facility location costs. The unit price in each ; market is a linear decreasing function of the total amount shipped to the market by all firms; that ; is, we consider an oligopolistic Cournot game and analyze the two-stage Nash Equilibrium. We ; discuss the results of extensive numerical studies that illustrate the effects of traffic congestion ; on a firm's equilibrium location and quantity decisions and demonstrate the efficiency of our ; solution approaches for finding equilibrium solutions.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17611/dot_17611_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 684.29 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1ba56077a26036da0832b9b38390f01a57f2e47b7bebd5362248585ff081d69b