Abstract
In this paper, an integrated optimization model is developed to improve the efficiency of coal shipping. The objective is (1) to determine the types of ships and the number of each type, (2) to optimize the ship routing, therefore, to minimize the total coal shipping cost. Meanwhile, an algorithm based on two-phase tabu search is designed to solve the model. Numerical tests show that the proposed method can decrease the unit shipping cost and the average ship delay, and improve the reliability of the coal shipping system. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Zeng, Q., & Yang, Z. (2007). Model integrating fleet design and ship routing problems for coal shipping. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4489 LNCS, pp. 1000–1003). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72588-6_160
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