Consolidation strategies for the delivery of perishable products

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 108-121

  Nguyen, Christine ^a   Dessouky, Maged ^b   Toriello, Alejandro ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Cost allocation; Freight transportation; Perishable products; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECONOMICS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COST-ALLOCATION; ECONOMY OF SCALE; LONG HAUL; LOW DEMAND; PERFORMANCE; PERISHABLE PRODUCT; SIMPLE++; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC-DEMAND; TRANSPORTATION COST;

COSTS;

ALGORITHM; COST ANALYSIS; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; STOCHASTICITY; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EID: 84903829211     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2014.05.018     Document Type: Article

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