Network design for express shipment delivery

Computational Optimization and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 239-262

  Barnhart, Cynthia ^a   Krishnan, Niranjan ^b   Kim, Daeki ^c   Ware, Keith ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN EXPRESS   (United States)

^c i2 Technologies   (United States)

^d UPS Airlines   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Multicommodity flows; Network design; Transportation

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; ALGORITHMS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

EXPRESS DELIVERY DELIVERY; MULTICOMMODITY FLOW PROBLEM; SERVICE NETWORK DESIGN PROBLEM;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0036499228     PISSN: 09266003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013721018618     Document Type: Article

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