A Truck Scheduling System Improves Efficiency in the Forest Industries

Timber transport plays an important part in the overall operational costs of forest industries. Depending on their size, typical large forest firms move between 500,000 and 3,000,000 cubic meters a year, with transportation budgets ranging from US $5 to 20 million. We developed an operative and comp...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Interfaces (Providence) 1996-07, Vol.26 (4), p.1-12
Hauptverfasser:	Weintraub, Andres, Epstein, Rafael, Morales, Ramiro, Seron, Jorge, Traverso, Pier
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Chile Commercial forests Decision support systems Delivery vehicles Forest management Forestry industry industries: lumber/wood Operating costs Operations research Road transport Scheduling Simulation simulation: applications Studies Timber Timber industry Transportation Transportation costs Truck drivers Trucks Vehicle fleets
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Zusammenfassung:	Timber transport plays an important part in the overall operational costs of forest industries. Depending on their size, typical large forest firms move between 500,000 and 3,000,000 cubic meters a year, with transportation budgets ranging from US $5 to 20 million. We developed an operative and computerized system, ASICAM, based on a simulation process with heuristic rules, to support daily truck scheduling decisions. It can be used on any personal computer and runs for about three minutes on a PC 486 for larger problems. ASICAM has been implemented in eight of the largest forest firms in Chile, reducing costs and improving overall operation and work efficiency.
ISSN:	0092-2102 2644-0865 1526-551X 2644-0873
DOI:	10.1287/inte.26.4.1