General methods for synchromodal planning of freight containers and transports

Synchromodal freight transport is introduced as intermodal transport, so container transport that uses several transportation vehicles, with an increased focus on a-modal booking, cooperation and real-time flexibility.<br/><br/>It is confirmed that general synchromodal network planning methods are rare or non-existent at the operational level....

A local search approach to resolving capacity issues in mobile cellular networks

In order to help network operators with their long term planning, a (part of a) decision support system has been developed in this thesis. We have compared two local search methods and we have investigated the influence of choosing the initial state more wisely. The choice of initial state is based upon the solution of a binary program...