Designing a reliable and dynamic multimodal transportation network for biofuel supply chains

Transportation Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 494-517

  Marufuzzaman, Mohammad ^a   Ekşioǧlu, Sandra Duni ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Benders decomposition; Biofuel supply chain network; Dynamic multimodal transportation model; Rolling horizon heuristic

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; DISASTERS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

BENDERS DECOMPOSITION; BENDERS DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM; BIOFUEL SUPPLY CHAINS; MIXED INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS; ROLLING HORIZON; ROLLING-HORIZON ALGORITHMS; SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK DESIGN;

MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 85019660269     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2015.0632     Document Type: Article

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