Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers operate networks of consolidation terminals, and route each customer shipment through a sequence of transfer terminals. At each terminal stop, a shipment is unloaded from an inbound trailer and reloaded onto an outbound trailer. A load plan determines the specific path of terminals to be used to transfer freight moving beten each origin and destination. The design of the load plan determines the line-haul transportation and handling costs required to serve customers.  develops an effective neighborhood search heuristic for solving a natural integer programming model for LTL load plan design. During each iteration of the heuristic, a modified version of the integer programming model is solved to find improving changes freight transfer paths for a subset of the origin-destination terminal pairs. Unlike existing approaches in the literature, the modified model solved here allows the simultaneous rerouting of freight destined for multiple terminals during each ne...
['Kathleen Lindsey', 'Alan L. Erera', 'Martin W. P. Savelsbergh']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Improved Integer Programming-Based Neighborhood Search for Less-Than-Truckload Load Plan Design
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