Multi-objective bilevel construction material transportation scheduling in large-scale construction projects under a fuzzy random environment

Transportation Planning and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 352-376

  Xu, Jiuping ^a   Gang, Jun ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bilevel programming; construction material; heuristic algorithm; transportation scheduling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; BI-LEVEL OPTIMIZATION MODELS; BI-LEVEL PROGRAMMING; CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES; FUZZY RANDOM ENVIRONMENT; MATERIAL TRANSPORTATION; SHUIBUYA HYDROPOWER PROJECT; TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

ALGORITHM; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HEURISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

EID: 84878965723     PISSN: 03081060     EISSN: 10290354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2013.798486     Document Type: Article

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