Vehicle Load Planning

Abstract

Continual rising fuel costs and rapidly increasing vehicle costs have generated management awareness of the costs incurred in physical distribution. Inevitably, management attention on the distribution function is drawn towards potential cost savings and increases in efficiency. Where transport costs represent a significant part of the total distibution costs, then one area which determines the efficiency of all others is the vehicle routing and scheduling activity which could collectively be known as load planning.

Citation

Slater, A. (1979), "Vehicle Load Planning", International Journal of Physical Distribution & Materials Management, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 77-99. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014468