Potentials for Efficiency Increase in Modern Freight Forwarding

The book "Potentials for Efficiency Increase in Modern Freight Forwarding" by Marta A. Krajewska offers a comprehensive analysis and innovative approaches to enhancing efficiency in the modern freight forwarding industry. It highlights the integration of new, practice-relevant aspects, such as various subcontracting options and cooperative planning approaches, which are significant for operational transport planning in commercial road traffic. The author presents concepts, models, and algorithms that go beyond the current state of the art and transform the challenges of vehicle routing and scheduling into an integrated operational transport planning problem. By considering multiple forms of subcontracting and developing an algorithm to solve complex combinatorial optimization problems, this work makes a valuable contribution to the scientific literature that is highly relevant in practice for freight forwarding companies.