Rail transportation planning in the chemical industry

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 112, Issue , 2018, Pages 142-160

  Kirschstein, Thomas ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical industry; Feasibility pump; Multi commodity network flows; Rail inventory routing; Rolling horizon

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION;

CHEMICAL LOGISTICS; FEASIBILITY PUMPS; INTERMEDIATE MATERIALS; INVENTORY ROUTING; MULTICOMMODITY NETWORK FLOW; RAIL INVENTORY ROUTING; RAIL TRANSPORT; RAIL TRANSPORTATION; ROLLING HORIZON; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMMODITY MARKET; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEURISTICS; INVENTORY; LOGISTICS; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 85042470255     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2018.01.001     Document Type: Article

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