Evaluation of Practically Oriented Approaches for Operational Transportation Planning.

Integrated operational transportation planning (IOTP) refers to the extension of vehicle routing by the option of subcontraction. In practice, planners often use semi-manual strategies for IOTP. Two wide spread semi-manual strategies for IOTP are presented. The strategies are evaluated by computational experiments comparing the results achieved by these strategies with the exact solutions which have been provided by MIP approach for IOTP.