Balancing fleet size and repositioning costs in LTL trucking

DOI10.1007/S10479-011-0924-1MaRDI QIDQ2393479zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors José Antonio Carbajal, Alan L. Erera, Martin W. P. Savelsbergh

Publication date 8 August 2013

Published in Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-011-0924-1

zbMATH Keywords

network flowsfleet sizingempty repositioningtruck transportation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Discrete location and assignment (90B80)

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