The significance of deterministic empty vehicle trips in the design of a unidirectional loop flow path

DOI10.1016/j.cor.2006.08.018zbMath1278.90057OpenAlexW2021851633MaRDI QIDQ2459390

Ardavan Asef-Vaziri, Ronny George, Nicholas G. Hall

Publication date: 6 November 2007

Published in: Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2006.08.018

zbMATH Keywords

generalized traveling salesman problemmaterial handlingautomated guided vehicle systemsflow path and station location design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35) Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Combinatorial optimization (90C27)

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