The determination of facility location by optimizing transportation costs within a construction site

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies: Transportation and Management Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 865-873

  Wong, C K ^a   Fung, I W H ^a   Huang, C ^a   Wong, S C ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHM (GAS); MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING (MIP); OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; SAFETY REQUIREMENTS; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LOCATION; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84896691102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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