Biofuel refinery location and supply chain planning under traffic congestion

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 162-175

  Bai, Yun ^a   Hwang, Taesung ^a   Kang, Seungmo ^b   Ouyang, Yanfeng ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biofuel refinery location; Branch and bound; Lagrangian relaxation; Mixed integer program; Supply chain planning; Traffic congestion

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; BRANCH AND BOUND METHOD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEEDSTOCKS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVESTMENTS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LOCATION; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; OPTIMIZATION; REFINING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

BIOFUEL REFINERY LOCATIONS; BIOFUEL SUPPLY CHAINS; LAGRANGIAN RELAXATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING RELAXATION; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRODUCT TRANSPORTATION; SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ALGORITHM; BIOFUEL; FACILITY LOCATION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LOCATION DECISION; LOCATION THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149500409     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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