With the development and maturity of autonomous driving technology, parcel terminal distribution has taken lead as an application scenario for unmanned delivery vehicles that autonomously perform task delivering packages between centres customers. The traditional model faces challenges such high costs, low efficiency time conflicts customer convenience. Considering multiple demands parcels deli...

In order to reduce SO2 emissions to less than 2.5 lbs/mBtu as mandated by the Clean Air Act Amendment (CAAA) of 1990, power companies mainly using higher sulfur content coal as fuel supplies have to find their alternatives to reduce SO2 emissions. The purpose of the study is to assess the extent of economies of scale in coal delivery. The network of coal flow consists of production sites, consu...

The Traffic Assignment problem consists in determining the routes used by sets of network users taking into account the link congestions. In deterministic modelling, Wardrop Equilibriums are computed. They can be reduced to huge nonlinear multiflow problems in the simplest cases. In stochastic modelling, Logit Assignments are used. They can be obtained, mainly, by substituting the minplus semir...

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) is a safety and quality management tool used as major issue in international and domestic trade in food industry. However, detailed information on costs and benefits of HACCP implementation is needed to provide appropriate advice to food processing plants. This paper reports on the perceptions of costs and benefits by the Mexican poultry proces...

In this paper, we will consider global routing and pin assignment in VLSI building block layout, and present an efficient algorithm which integrates global routing, pin assignment, block reshaping and positioning. The general flow of the proposed algorithm is the same as the one proposed in [1] and consists of two main phases. The first phase is to determine not only global routes and coarse pi...

Transit network conditions change everyday. While those changes should be considered for modifying a transit network, formulating and optimizing the whole transit network may be a costly, difficult task. This article uses a developed transit network design model to examine how optimal transit networks should be developed based on changes in input elements of the transit network. Three major inp...