Routing propane deliveries

Logistics Systems: Design and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 299-322

  Dror, Moshe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 77954203997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24977-X_10     Document Type: Chapter

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