• 2D-packing with an application to stowage in Roll-on Roll-off liner shipping 

      Hansen, Jone; Hukkelberg, Ivar; Fagerholt, Kjetil; Stålhane, Magnus; Rakke, Jørgen Glomvik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Roll-on/Roll-off (RoRo) ships represent the primary source for transporting vehicles and other types of rolling material over long distances. In this paper we focus on operational decisions related to stowage of cargoes ...
    • A New Formulation for the Combined Maritime Fleet Deployment and Inventory Management Problem 

      Dong, Bo; Bektas, Tolga; Chandra, Saurabh; Christiansen, Marielle; Fagerholt, Kjetil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This paper addresses the fleet deployment problem and in particular the treatment of inventory in the maritime case. A new model based on time-continuous formulation for the combined maritime fleet deployment and inventory ...
    • A Shortest Path Heuristic for Evaluating the Quality of Stowage Plans in Roll-On Roll-Off Liner Shipping 

      Hansen, Jone R.; Fagerholt, Kjetil; Stålhane, Magnus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Roll-on Roll-off shipping companies transport rolling cargo, such as cars, trucks and large construction machines. When sailing, this type of cargo must be attached to the deck using chains, to prevent damaging the cargo. ...
    • A vessel pickup and delivery problem from the disruption management in offshore supply vessel operations 

      Albjerk, Nils; Danielsen, Teodor; Krey, Stian; Stålhane, Magnus; Fagerholt, Kjetil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This paper considers a vessel pickup and delivery problem that arises in the case of disruptions in the supply vessel logistics in the offshore oil and gas industry. The problem can be modelled as a multi-vehicle pickup ...
    • Arc Routing with Precedence Constraints: An Application to Snow Plowing Operations 

      Gundersen, Anders Holmen; Johansen, Magnus; Kjær, Benjamin; Andersson, Henrik; Stålhane, Magnus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In this paper we present an arc routing problem with precedence constraints, with a focus on its application to snow plowing operations in Norway. The problem studied considers the clearing of snow from a network of roads, ...
    • Layered Formulation for the Robust Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows 

      Agra, Agostinho; Christiansen, Marielle; Figueiredo, Rosa; Hvattum, Lars Magnus; Poss, Michael; Requejo, Cristina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This paper studies the vehicle routing problem with time windows where travel times are uncertain and belong to a predetermined polytope. The objective of the problem is to find a set of routes that services all nodes of ...
    • Maritime fleet deployment with speed optimization and voyage separation requirements 

      Borander, Venke; Straume, Anders; Dong, Bo; Fagerholt, Kjetil; Wang, Xin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      A shipping company operates a heterogeneous fleet of ships to service a given number of voyages on a number of trade routes over the planning horizon. Each ship has a predefined speed range within which it can sail. Fuel ...
    • Offshore supply planning in a rolling time horizon 

      Fernandez Cuesta, Eirik; Andersson, Henrik; Fagerholt, Kjetil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This paper presents a real transportation problem stemming from offshore oil and gas logistics and shows how optimization models used in a rolling horizon simulation framework can be very valuable to assess and improve the ...
    • Organizational learning to leverage benefits realization management; evidence from a municipal eHealth effort 

      Askedal, Kirsti; Flak, Leif Skiftenes; Solli-Sæther, Hans; Straub, Detmar W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      While work with benefits realization requires organizational learning to be effective, emphasis on organizational learning is hard to find in benefits realization studies. To remedy this research gap, we study how ...
    • Planning of an Offshore Well Plugging Campaign: A Vehicle Routing Approach 

      Bakker, Steffen J.; Aarlott, Mats Mathisen; Tomasgard, Asgeir; Midthun, Kjetil Trovik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      When a petroleum well no longer serves its purpose, the operator is required to plug and abandon (P&A) the well to avoid contamination of reservoir fluids. An increasing number of offshore wells needs to be P&A’d in the ...
    • Strategic optimization of offshore wind farm installation 

      Backe, Stian; Haugland, Dag (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This work describes logistical planning of offshore wind farm (OWF) installation through linear programming. A mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model is developed to analyze cost-effective port and vessel strategies ...
    • The static bicycle repositioning problem - Literature survey and new formulation 

      Espegren, Hans Martin; Kristianslund, Johannes; Andersson, Henrik; Fagerholt, Kjetil (Journal article, 2016)
      This paper considers the static bicycle repositioning problem (SBRP), which deals with optimally re-balancing bike sharing systems (BSS) overnight, i.e. using service vehicles to move bikes from (nearly) full stations to ...
    • The Vehicle Routing Problem with Dynamic Occasional Drivers 

      Dahle, Lars; Andersson, Henrik; Christiansen, Marielle (Journal article, 2017)
      Technological advances, such as smart phones and mobile internet, allow for new and innovative solutions for transportation of goods to customers. We consider a setting where a company not only uses its own fleet of vehicles ...