Trailer fleet planning for industrial gas distribution

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1329-1342

  Feng, Yazhe ^a   Ellis, Kimberly P ^a   Crawford, Charlie W ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fleet planning; heuristics; industrial gas distribution; mixed integer programming; strategic inventory routing problem

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; FLEET OPERATIONS; GAS INDUSTRY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC UTILITIES; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

FLEET PLANNING; GAS DISTRIBUTION; HEURISTICS; INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEMS; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

GASES;

EID: 84906272683     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2014.905737     Document Type: Article

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