41 books that really serve: to order a business that grew, understand the logistics, care for the driver and, if necessary, build the software. Each with a note about why it is and a link to get it.
Owners and commissioners
Logistics, dispatch and fleet
Technical equipment
No formulas. About ordering the operation, the box and the work when the owner no longer gets to be in everything.
1995 · HarperBusiness
Gerber, M. E. (autores)
Why so many small businesses stagnate: the owner works within the business and not over it. The proposal is to document each process as if the business was to be franchised tomorrow.
For: Who wants the operation to work without having to be in all of them.
ISBN 9780887307287
2012 · 3rd edition · North River Press
Goldratt, E. M.; Cox, J. (autores)
A novel about to close a plant that teaches the theory of restrictions: the whole system advances to the rhythm of its bottle neck. It changes the plant for a cast and the lesson is the same.
For: Owners and managers who feel that they're all busy and nothing goes on.
ISBN 9780884271956
2017 · Portfolio
Michalowicz, M. (autores)
A deliberately simple cash method: to turn the profit away just comes in the money, rather than waiting for it to over. Written for small businesses, not for directories.
For: Negocios cuyas ventas crecen y cuya caja no.
ISBN 9780735214149
2003 · 2nd edition · Free Press
Womack, J. P.; Jones, D. T. (autores)
The principles read - define the value, make it flow, eliminate waste - counted with real companies and carried away from the factory.
For: Find the time you waste on empty trips, wait and deliver that you have to repeat.
ISBN 9780743249270
The level where the distribution is a decision between several: wineries, inventory, transport and network.
2022 · 7th edition · Kogan Page
Rushton, A.; Croucher, P.; Baker, P. (autores)
Practical distribution manual: wineries, road transport, vehicle costs, route planning and subcontracting. Closer to the operation than to the theory.
For: Who runs wineries and offices day by day.
ISBN 9781398602045
2013 · 2nd edition · Wiley
Ghiani, G.; Laporte, G.; Musmanno, R. (autores)
It places the routing within the complete logistic system, with quantitative models in each chapter. Lapte is co-author of much of the papers library, and it is noted continuity.
For: The entry text if you come from operations and not math.
ISBN 9781119943389
2018 · 7th edition · Pearson
Chopra, S. (autores)
The standard text of supply chain in business schools: network design, inventory, transport and prices, each subject with cases.
For: Order the supply and distribution decisions of a business that is no longer small.
ISBN 9780134731882
2007 · 3rd edition · McGraw-Hill
Simchi-Levi, D.; Kaminsky, P.; Simchi-Levi, E. (autores)
Classic with more weight in the models: inventory, risk, alliances and the value of sharing information along the chain.
For: More quantitative addition to the book of Chopra.
ISBN 9780073341521
2015 · 3rd edition · Kogan Page
McKinnon, A.; Browne, M.; Piecyk, M.; Whiteing, A. (editores)
How to measure and reduce logistics emissions with data: consumption, load factor, alternative routes and vehicles, each chapter by a specialist.
For: When a customer asks for the carbon footprint of his offices, or is evaluated to move to electric.
ISBN 9780749471850
2012 · MIT Press
Sheffi, Y. (autores)
Why the logistics activity is concentrated in certain places and what the companies that set up close to each other earn.
For: Decide where a winery or an dispatch point is appropriate.
ISBN 9780262018456
2021 · Springer
Crainic, T. G.; Gendreau, M.; Gendron, B. (editores)
The level of decision that is above the routing: where to put the centers, how to consolidate the flows, which network is appropriate. Optimizing routes on a poorly designed network has a low roof.
For: Tactical and strategic decisions, not of the daily operation.
What makes a driver crash or not, and what the evidence says about distraction and risk.
2004 · Science Serving Society
Evans, L. (autores)
A synthesis of decades of research on shocks, written by an area researcher. Their argument, supported by data: what moves the risk most is how it is driven, more than the vehicle or the road.
For: Whoever's running a security program and wants arguments other than a brochure.
ISBN 9780975487108
2008 · CRC Press
Regan, M. A.; Lee, J. D.; Young, K. L. (editores)
The volume that ordered the topic: what counts as distraction, how it is measured, what effect it has on driving and what countermeasures have been tested.
For: Evaluate a cabin distraction alert with criterion.
ISBN 9780849374265
2013 · CRC Press
Regan, M. A.; Lee, J. D.; Victor, T. W. (editores)
The continuation of the previous one: it extends the look from distraction to the general lack of attention and it reflects the research of the following years.
For: Deep after Driver District.
ISBN 9781409425854
2011 · Academic Press
Porter, B. E. (editores)
A reference manual on driving behaviour: theories, study methods and risk factors that transit psychology has measured, chapter by chapter.
For: Consultation when you have to understand a specific behavior, not a running reading.
ISBN 9780123819845
The technical heart of the topic. If you are only going to read two technical books on this list, they are here.
2014 · 2nd edition · SIAM
Toth, P.; Vigo, D. (editores)
The reference book of the area, and the only technician of this list we would call it essential. Each chapter is written by the person who works that sub-problem, and the bibliography serves as a map of everything else.
For: Whoever is to build or evaluate a route optimization engine.
ISBN 9781611973587
2002 · SIAM
Toth, P.; Vigo, D. (editores)
The first edition. It remains on the list because several chapters were not rewritten for the second and remain the best available exhibition of its theme.
For: A supplement to the previous, not a substitute.
ISBN 9780898714982
2008 · Springer
Golden, B.; Raghavan, S.; Wasil, E. (editores)
Collect the variants that appear as soon as the problem comes out of the laboratory: heterogeneous fleet, multiple deposits, divided deliveries, load restrictions.
For: When the real problem ceased to look like that of the textbook.
ISBN 9780387777771
2015 · SIAM
Corberán, Á.; Laporte, G. (editores)
When the service is on the streets and not at the points: waste collection, sweep, reading of meters, snow clearance. It is another problem and needs other tools.
For: Operaciones municipales y de servicios de barrido.
ISBN 9781611973662
2007 · Springer
Gutin, G.; Punnen, A. P. (editores)
The most complete treatment of TSP and its family. Decent, and the reference to which it becomes when a variant does not fit into any known formulation.
For: See, more than read in a row.
2006 · Princeton University Press
Applegate, D. L.; Bixby, R. E.; Chvátal, V.; Cook, W. J. (autores)
The story of Concorde told by those who wrote it: how it is possible to solve instances of tens of thousands of cities to the best shown. It is a book of engineering as well as mathematics.
For: Understand what separates a research solver from a production one.
ISBN 9780691129938
The machinery below: whole programming, column generation and search.
1997 · Athena Scientific
Bertsimas, D.; Tsitsiklis, J. N. (autores)
Linear programming explained with a clarity that has not been overcome in thirty years. Duality, which is what makes the generation of columns possible, is understood here.
For: The base that everything else assumes you already have.
ISBN 9781886529199
2020 · 2nd edition · Wiley
Wolsey, L. A. (autores)
The introduction to whole programming that is most used. Cut, clear and direct to what matters: to formulate well, to strengthen the formulation and to understand what the solver does.
For: The first entire optimization book, before any other.
ISBN 9781119606536
2005 · Springer
Desaulniers, G.; Desrosiers, J.; Solomon, M. M. (editores)
The technique on which the best exact methods of routing with time windows were built. Without this, half of the literature of exact methods is illegible.
For: Before you try to read any articles of branch-and-price.
ISBN 9780387254852
2019 · 3rd edition · Springer
Gendreau, M.; Potvin, J.-Y. (editores)
A chapter by method, written by the person who developed it. It is the fastest way to decide which family of metaheuristic suits a problem before investing months in one.
For: Choose method with criterion rather than custom.
ISBN 9783319910857
2009 · Wiley
Talbi, E.-G. (autores)
More aimed at implementing than to demonstrate. This is precisely why it deals with the design of neighborhoods, the representation of solutions and the paralleling as engineering problems.
For: Move from article to code that runs in production.
ISBN 9780470278581
2018 · 6th edition · Springer
Korte, B.; Vygen, J. (autores)
The standard postgraduate text. Rigorous, complete and demanding: includes the chapter on the TSP that explains why the problem is difficult and what can be guaranteed anyway.
For: Solid foundations, with time to dedicate.
ISBN 9783662560389
2018 · 2nd edition · MIT Press
Sutton, R. S.; Barto, A. G. (autores)
The reference of the area. It is on this list because the dynamic routing - to decide without knowing which orders come - is naturally formulated as a sequential decision problem.
For: Before reading any article routing with reinforcement learning.
ISBN 9780262039246
The computer base. A route engine is, in the end, a very well-solved graph problem.
2022 · 4th edition · MIT Press
Cormen, T. H.; Leiserson, C. E.; Rivest, R. L.; Stein, C. (autores)
The general text. Its chapters of graphs, minimum roads and dynamic programming are the starting point of almost everything else in this list.
For: The common base. If any of the paper library becomes unreadable, this is usually missing.
ISBN 9780262046305
1993 · Prentice Hall
Ahuja, R. K.; Magnanti, T. L.; Orlin, J. B. (autores)
Thirty years later it remains the best treatment of flows in networks and minimum roads. A route engine is, in the background, this book set to run.
For: Anyone who works with road charts every day.
ISBN 9780136175490
1998 · Dover
Papadimitriou, C. H.; Steiglitz, K. (autores)
Classic, short and cheap in its Dover edition. Explains why certain routing problems are intractable, which is just what you need to understand before you promise an optimal.
For: Know when to stop looking for the exact solution.
ISBN 9780486402581
From raw GPS point to order forecast, and from the image of a camera to what can be concluded from it.
2021 · 3rd edition · OTexts
Hyndman, R. J.; Athanasopoulos, G. (autores)
The best starting point for forecasting orders, demand or travel. Practical, with examples in R, and its authors publish it full and free online.
For: Plan how many orders and how many routes come next week.
ISBN 9780987507136
2011 · Springer
Zheng, Y.; Zhou, X. (editores)
It covers the section that goes from the raw GPS point to the usable route: adjustment to the road network, indexation, compression and pattern mining. It is the bridge between telemetry and the optimization model.
For: Whoever has millions of points and needs to turn them into information.
ISBN 9781461416289
2023 · Chapman & Hall/CRC
Pebesma, E.; Bivand, R. (autores)
Well-treated spatial data: coordinate systems, geometries, rasters and space statistics. The authors keep the full version online.
For: Who works with addresses, delivery areas and traces on the map.
ISBN 9781138311183
2023 · Springer
James, G.; Witten, D.; Hastie, T.; Tibshirani, R.; Taylor, J. (autores)
Statistical learning explained without demanding more than basic algebra, with examples in Python. Its authors offer it in free PDF.
For: Analysts who want to move from the spreadsheet to a model.
2022 · 2nd edition · Springer
Szeliski, R. (autores)
Wide computer view reference, from camera model to recognition. The author maintains a free digital version for personal use.
For: Understand what can and can't finish a camera in a cabin.
ISBN 9783030343712
2017 · O'Reilly
Kleppmann, M. (autores)
How systems are built that keep and move data without losing them. It's what's under any platform that receives vehicle positions every few seconds.
For: Technical equipment that integrates or builds on fleet data.
ISBN 9781449373320
They're just a little bit of a bit of a little bit more than that.
2014 · Princeton University Press
Cook, W. J. (autores)
Written by one of the authors of Concorde, without a single equation required of the reader. It's what we pass to someone who needs to understand why optimizing routes is really difficult.
For: Explain the problem to a management, or to someone who just arrived.
ISBN 9780691163529
2008 · Knopf
Vanderbilt, T. (autores)
Strict journalism about why we handle how we handle: why the lane next door seems to move faster, how we perceive the risk and what traffic does with our conduct.
For: Talk about driving with the team without a sermon tone.
ISBN 9780307264788
2016 · 2nd edition · Princeton University Press
Levinson, M. (autores)
The history of the container: how a standardized box covered both moving goods and changing where it is made and where it is bought. Logistic told as economic history.
For: Understanding why the cost of transport decides so much.
ISBN 9780691170818
2016 · Henry Holt
Christian, B.; Griffiths, T. (autores)
Computer ideas applied to daily decisions: when to stop looking, how to order, how to plan with uncertainty. Use the problem of the traveler to explain when it is appropriate to simplify a problem.
For: A friendly entrance door to think of as an optimizer.
ISBN 9781627790369
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