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Elsevier, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 1(48), p. 355-372

DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2011.07.004

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Dynamic routing of time-sensitive air cargo using real-time information

Journal article published in 2012 by Farshid Azadian, Alper E. Murat, Ratna Babu Chinnam ORCID
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Abstract

The route planning of time-sensitive air-cargo is becoming more important with the growing air-network congestion and delays. We consider a freight forwarder's routing of a time-sensitive air-cargo in the presence of real-time and historical information regarding flight availability, departure delays and travel times. A departure delay estimation model is developed to account for real-time information inaccuracy. A novel Markov decision model is formulated and solved with online backward induction. Through synthetic experiments and case studies, we demonstrate that dynamic routing with real-time information can improve delivery reliability and reduce expected cost.