Title
Reducing Transportation Costs in Distribution Networks
Abstract
In this work, we model the conflicting objectives in a distribution network, i.e. trade-offs between transportation costs, inventory and time scheduling requirements. Transportation costs include time costs, truck setup costs, and the number of trucks used. The model is formulated as an integer program and a solution of two-stage metaheuristic is provided. Computational experiments are conducted to test the algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11779568_121
Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
time cost,time scheduling requirement,truck setup cost,integer program,conflicting objective,two-stage metaheuristic,distribution network,computational experiment,transportation cost,computer experiment,genetic algorithm,inventory,heuristic search
Flow network,Truck,Heuristic,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Operations research,Inventory control,Integer programming,Genetic algorithm,Metaheuristic
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4031
16113349
3-540-35453-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xi Li130.40
Andrew Lim2836.49
Zhaowei Miao31358.20
Brian Rodrigues4788.07