Workforce management in periodic delivery operations

Transportation Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 214-230

  Smilowitz, Karen ^a   Nowak, MacIek ^b   Jiang, Tingting ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiobjective optimization; Periodic vehicle routing problems; Workforce management

Indexed keywords

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING; PERIODIC DELIVERY; PERIODIC VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM; SET OF CUSTOMERS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS; WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84877973507     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1120.0407     Document Type: Article

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