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Developing green fleet management strategies: Repair/retrofit/replacement decisions under environmental regulation
Highlights ► An approximate dynamic program optimizes fleet vehicle repair, retrofit and replacement. ► The program can handle large state spaces which troubled earlier models. ► A sample application examines how a government fleet can comply with emissions regulations. ► The model can gauge the impact of regulation on vehicle values and fleet owner behavior.
Abstract The considerable cost of maintaining large fleets has generated interest in cost minimization strategies. With many related decisions, numerous constraints, and significant sources of uncertainty (e.g. vehicle breakdowns), fleet managers face complex dynamic optimization problems. Existing methodologies frequently make simplifying assumptions or fail to converge quickly for large problems. This paper presents an approximate dynamic programming approach for making vehicle purchase, resale, and retrofit decisions in a fleet setting with stochastic vehicle breakdowns. Value iteration is informed by dual variables from linear programs, as well as other bounds on vehicle shadow prices. Sample problems are based on a government fleet seeking to comply with emissions regulation. The model predicts the expected cost of compliance, the rules the fleet manager will use in deciding how to comply, and the regulation’s impact on the value of vehicles in the fleet. Stricter regulation lowers the value of some vehicle categories while raising the value of others. Such insights can help guide regulators, as well as the fleet managers they oversee. The methodologies developed could be applied more broadly to general multi-asset replacement problems, many of which have similar structures.
Developing green fleet management strategies: Repair/retrofit/replacement decisions under environmental regulation
Highlights ► An approximate dynamic program optimizes fleet vehicle repair, retrofit and replacement. ► The program can handle large state spaces which troubled earlier models. ► A sample application examines how a government fleet can comply with emissions regulations. ► The model can gauge the impact of regulation on vehicle values and fleet owner behavior.
Abstract The considerable cost of maintaining large fleets has generated interest in cost minimization strategies. With many related decisions, numerous constraints, and significant sources of uncertainty (e.g. vehicle breakdowns), fleet managers face complex dynamic optimization problems. Existing methodologies frequently make simplifying assumptions or fail to converge quickly for large problems. This paper presents an approximate dynamic programming approach for making vehicle purchase, resale, and retrofit decisions in a fleet setting with stochastic vehicle breakdowns. Value iteration is informed by dual variables from linear programs, as well as other bounds on vehicle shadow prices. Sample problems are based on a government fleet seeking to comply with emissions regulation. The model predicts the expected cost of compliance, the rules the fleet manager will use in deciding how to comply, and the regulation’s impact on the value of vehicles in the fleet. Stricter regulation lowers the value of some vehicle categories while raising the value of others. Such insights can help guide regulators, as well as the fleet managers they oversee. The methodologies developed could be applied more broadly to general multi-asset replacement problems, many of which have similar structures.
Developing green fleet management strategies: Repair/retrofit/replacement decisions under environmental regulation
Stasko, Timon H. (author) / Oliver Gao, H. (author)
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice ; 46 ; 1216-1226
2012-05-16
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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