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Dynamic Vehicle Dispatching: Optimal Heavy Traffic Performance and Practical Insights
1999
Operations Research
We analyze a general model of dynamic vehicle dispatching systems in which congestion is the primary measure of performance. In the model, a finite collection of tours are dynamically dispatched to deliver loads that arrive randomly over time. A load waits in queue until it is assigned to a tour. This representation, which is analogous to classical set-covering models, can be used to study a variety of dynamic routing and load consolidation problems. We characterize the optimal work in the
doi:10.1287/opre.47.5.675
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