Markov decision process approach for multiple objective hazardous material transportation route selection problem

International Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 506-529

  Lim, Gino J ^a   Desai, Sumeet S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazardous materials transportation; Markov decision process; Multiple objective optimisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950601709     PISSN: 17457645     EISSN: 17457653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2010.032424     Document Type: Article

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