Hub location problems

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This review paper deals with discrete hub location problems. In hub location problems demand is specified as flow between many origins and destinations. Hub facilities (which have to be established) serve as connection and concentration points for origin-destination flows. Due to economies of scale the larger flow between hubs makes the transportation costs smaller. Applications of hub location models include air passenger travel, air freight travel, express shipments, postal operations and public transportation systems. First the authors consider basic hub location problems (uncapacitated multiple/single allocation p-hub median problem, uncapacitated multiple/single allocation hub location problem). Some related literature (also the continuous version) is briefly looked at. Also recent trends are discussed. The next section is devoted to models and taxonomy where the building blocks of a hub location model are described in more detail (objective, network structure, constraints). After a section devoted to applications the authors review solution methods for hub location problems and discuss complexity issues. The final section contains some conclusions where the key themes are summarized and an outlook to future research directions is given. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0988.00044].




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