TY - JOUR
T1 - Static and dynamic order scheduling for recreational rental vehicles at tourism holdings limited
AU - Ernst, Andreas T.
AU - Horn, Mark
AU - Krishnamoorthy, Mohan
AU - Kilby, Philip
AU - Degenhardt, Phil
AU - Moran, Michael
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - Tourism Holdings Limited (THL), with 14 locations in Australia and New Zealand, operates a fleet of approximately 4,000 recreational rental vehicles of many types. It allocates vehicles to bookings centrally. If demand for a particular vehicle type at a location exceeds supply, THL may substitute vehicles of similar types or relocate vehicles from other locations to the location that needs the vehicles. The static problem that THL faces daily is to determine a vehicle schedule that minimizes the tangible and intangible costs of such substitutions and relocations. The dynamic problem is to determine-sometimes as the customer waits-whether a vehicle will be available to cover a potential booking and to incorporate that booking into the schedule. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has researched, developed, and supplied software, VASS and D-VASS, to solve the static and dynamic aspects of THL's schedule creation and maintenance. This paper describes the THL problem, the systems that CSIRO implemented, and how THL embedded these systems into its operations.
AB - Tourism Holdings Limited (THL), with 14 locations in Australia and New Zealand, operates a fleet of approximately 4,000 recreational rental vehicles of many types. It allocates vehicles to bookings centrally. If demand for a particular vehicle type at a location exceeds supply, THL may substitute vehicles of similar types or relocate vehicles from other locations to the location that needs the vehicles. The static problem that THL faces daily is to determine a vehicle schedule that minimizes the tangible and intangible costs of such substitutions and relocations. The dynamic problem is to determine-sometimes as the customer waits-whether a vehicle will be available to cover a potential booking and to incorporate that booking into the schedule. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has researched, developed, and supplied software, VASS and D-VASS, to solve the static and dynamic aspects of THL's schedule creation and maintenance. This paper describes the THL problem, the systems that CSIRO implemented, and how THL embedded these systems into its operations.
KW - Assignment problems
KW - Network-flow algorithms
KW - Rental-scheduling applications
KW - Revenue management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38849168262&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1287/inte.1060.0265
DO - 10.1287/inte.1060.0265
M3 - Article
SN - 0092-2102
VL - 37
SP - 334
EP - 341
JO - Interfaces
JF - Interfaces
IS - 4
ER -