Strategic planning of transportation services for petroleum products An application of capacitated gravity models

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 215-230

  Smith, L Douglas ^a   Moses, Steven W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b Williams Pipe Line Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Distribution; Modelling; Strategic planning

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COSTS; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PETROLEUM PIPELINES; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; PIPELINE TERMINALS;

CAPACITATED GRAVITY MODELS; CORPORATE PLANNING; MULTIPLICATIVE COMPETITIVE INTERACTION MODELS; TRANSPORTATION SERVICES;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 0029737179     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0377-2217(95)00143-3     Document Type: Article

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