Challenger Motor Freight: Improving vehicle utilization in truckload transportation

Challenger Motor Freight：提高整车运输中的车辆利用率

• 批准号: 526729-2018
• 负责人: Bookbinder, James
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=645796
• 关键词: Challenger; Motor; Freight; Improving; vehicle

Challenger Motor Freight, a major Canadian trucking company with annual revenues of $300 million, operates**700 vehicles in its truckload division. This study concerns the firm's network in Ontario and Quebec, where**around 150 and 100 drivers are respectively domiciled. Challenger's truckload trips go mainly from those**provinces to the US Midwest or Atlantic Coast.**The goal of this research is to attain increased vehicle utilization, defined as the percentage of total miles**driven in which a revenue-generating load is carried. When the sum of all loads destined to, and departing**from, a group of nearby cities is approximately equal, the flow of freight is termed "balanced." Profitable**truckload operations tend to be balanced. We will thus develop a model to achieve enhanced vehicle utilization**from balanced operations.**A Canadian driver, once having crossed the US border, must come back to Canada. In building Challenger's**(irregular) routes, we will seek American-origin loads leaving from near a given truck's current location, and**whose destination is in Canada. Drivers based in Quebec or Ontario often carry a backhaul load from the US to**the other province. One constraint we will enforce concerns the work-life harmony. A driver is ideally home**for a couple of days after five days on the road, or is home for 3-4 days after 10 days away.**The deliverables from this project include a new optimization model that Challenger will be able use in**balancing its operational truckload network. This model, and its associated data, when kept current, will enable**the firm to enhance the efficiency of its operations by enabling them to achieve a sustained level of vehicle**utilization.

Challenger Motor Freight是一家加拿大主要的卡车运输公司，年收入为3亿加元，在其卡车负载部门运营** 700辆汽车。这项研究涉及该公司在安大略省和魁北克的网络，该网络分别为150和100个驾驶员。 Challenger的卡车运行主要来自这些**省到美国中西部或大西洋海岸的省份。当所有负载的总和从**出发时，附近的城市的一组大致相等时，货运的流量称为“平衡”。盈利**卡车负载操作往往是平衡的。因此，我们将开发一个模型，以实现平衡运营的增强车辆利用**。**一旦越过美国边境，加拿大司机必须回到加拿大。在构建挑战者的**（不规则）路线时，我们将寻求从给定卡车当前的位置附近离开的美国 - 空载负荷，以及**的目的地在加拿大。总部位于魁北克或安大略省的司机经常从美国承担回程负载，以**另一个省。我们将执行的一个约束涉及工作与生活和谐。驾驶员在五天后五天后的几天持续了几天，或者在10天之后持续3-4天。该模型及其相关数据（当保持最新）将使公司能够通过使其达到持续的车辆**利用水平来提高其运营效率。