Without successful large-scale regional evacuations, threats such as hurricanes and wild-fires can cause a large loss of life. In this context, automobiles are oftentimes an essential transportation mode for evacuations, but the ensuing traffic typically overwhelms the roadway capacity and causes congestion on a massive scale. Congestion leads to many problems including longer, costlier, and mo...

In the Aggregate Production Planning (APP) the manager considers simultaneously conflicting objectives such as total cost, inventories level, workforce fluctuation, and utilization level of the physical facility and equipment. The goals associated with these objectives may be uncertain in nature. The aim of this paper is to develop a Goal Programming (GP) model where the goals and the right-han...

Aggregate production planning (APP) is a medium-term capacity planning to determine the quantity of production, inventory and work force levels to satisfy fluctuating demand over a planning horizon. The goal is to minimize costs and instabilities in the work force and inventory levels. This paper is concentrated on multi-period, multi-product and multi-machine systems with setup decisions. In t...