Citation

Goel A. Transp. Sci. 2010; 44(4): 429-441.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)

DOI

10.1287/trsc.1100.0330

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Since April 2007 working hours of truck drivers in the European Union are controlled by regulation (EC) No. 561/2006. According to the new regulation, road transport undertakings must organise the work of drivers in a way that drivers are able to comply with the regulations and can be made liable for infringements committed by the drivers. Although of particular importance in long-distance haulage, regulations on working hours of truck drivers have received very little attention in the scheduling literature. This paper presents a method for scheduling driving and working hours of truck drivers with respect to regulation (EC) No. 561/2006. Given a sequence of locations to be visited within specified time windows, the approach is guaranteed to find a schedule complying with the regulation if such a schedule exists.

Language: en