An investigation into a new class of vehicle routing problem with backhauls

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Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 479-487

  Wade, A C ^a   Salhi, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backhauls; Flexibility; Heuristic; Routing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036889131     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(02)00056-7     Document Type: Article

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