A study of vehicle routing problems with load-balancing

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 646-657

  Lee, Tzong Ru ^a   Ueng, Ji Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Employee relations; Heuristics; Routeing; Transportation method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986019125     PISSN: 09600035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09600039910300019     Document Type: Article

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