Location and multi-depot vehicle routing for emergency vehicles using tour coverage and random sampling

Decision Science Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 572-579

  Goli, Alireza ^a   Alinaghian, Mehdi ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Emergency system; Random sampling; Relief operations; Routing problem; Tour coverage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936874833     PISSN: 19295804     EISSN: 19295812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5267/j.dsl.2015.5.001     Document Type: Article

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