AbstractThis paper studies a mixed truck delivery system that allows both hub-and-spoke and direct shipment delivery modes. A heuristic algorithm is developed to determine the mode of delivery for each demand and to perform vehicle routing in both modes of deliveries. Computational experiments are carried out on a large set of randomly generated problem instances to compare the mixed system with the pure hub-and-spoke system and the pure direct shipment system. The experiment results show that the mixed system can save around 10% total traveling distance on average as compared with either of the two pure systems.


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    Title :

    Mixed truck delivery systems with both hub-and-spoke and direct shipment


    Contributors:
    Liu, Jiyin (author) / Li, Chung-Lun (author) / Chan, Chun-Yan (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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