Solution to the Multidepot Inventory Slack-Routing Problem at the Planning Stage

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Yang, Xianfeng ^a   Zhu, Shanjiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivery quantity scheduling; Inventory; Multidepot; Site assignment; Slack; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

SCHEDULING; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

EMERGENCY EVENTS; INVENTORY; MULTI DEPOTS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMAL VEHICLES; ROUTING PROBLEMS; SITE ASSIGNMENT; SLACK;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84952332765     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000449     Document Type: Article

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