A Mixed-integer Linear Programming model is proposed to determine the optimal number, location and capacity of the warehouses required to support a long-term forecast for a business with seasonal demand. Discrete transportation costs, dynamic warehouse contracting, and the handling of safety stock are the three main distinctive features of the problem. Four alternatives for addressing discrete ...

Facility location problems are often encountered in many areas such as distribution, transportation and telecommunication. We describe a new solution approach for the capacitated facility location problem in which each customer is served by a single facility. An important class of heuristic solution methods for these problems are Lagrangian heuristics which have been shown to produce high quali...

In this paper, a green transportation location problem is considered with uncertain demand parameter. Increasing robustness influences the number of trucks for sending goods and products, caused consequently, increase the air pollution. In this paper, two green approaches are introduced which demand is the main uncertain parameter in both. These approaches are addressed to provide a trade-off b...

Shortest path computation is one of the most common queries in location-based services that involve transportation networks. Motivated by scalability challenges faced in the mobile network industry, we propose adopting the wireless broadcast model for such location-dependent applications. In this model the data are continuously transmitted on the air, while clients listen to the broadcast and p...

Many important problems in communication networks, transportation networks, and logistics networks are solved by the minimization of cost functions. In general, these can be complex optimization problems involving many variables. However, physicists noted that in a network, a node variable (such as the amount of resources of the nodes) is connected to a set of link variables (such as the flow c...

During the last three decades, the integrated optimization approach to logistics systems has become one of the most important aspects of the supply chain optimization. This approach simultaneously considers the interdependence of the location of the facilities, suppliers/customers allocation to the facilities, the structure of transportation routes, and inventory planning and control. Location-...

The consideration of barriers to travel plays an increasingly important role in the transportation and location literature. In one of the classical papers on location problems with barriers, Katz and Cooper (1981) considered the Weber problem (often also referred to as median problem) with one circular barrier region. Considering the same problem we develop new structural results showing that t...

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Bus network design is an important problem in public transportation. A main step to this design is determining the number of required terminals and their locations. This is a special type of facility location problem, which is a time-consuming, large scale, combinatorial problem. In a previous attempt by the authors, this problem had been solved by GAMS, based on a branch and bound algorithm.&...

in this paper, a multi-objective hub location problem considering stochastic links and candidate nodes characteristics is modeled. the first objective is to minimize total costs, including setup and transportation costs. the second one is to minimize network risks. characteristics such as weather conditions, safety, exchange rate, crisis, are defined as uncertainty parameters and considered as ...