Production scheduling and truck dispatching of ready mixed concrete

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 164-179

  Yan, Shangyao ^a   Lai, Weishen ^a   Chen, Maonan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Network flow problem with side constraints; Ready mixed concrete; RMC truck; Scheduling; Time space network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 34948829067     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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