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Dual-Ascent Procedures for Multicommodity Location-Allocation Problems with Balancing Requirements

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  • Teodor Gabriel Crainic

    (Département des Sciences Administratives, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada, and Centre de Recherche sur les Transports, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)

  • Louis Delorme

    (V.P. Recherche, I.R.E.Q., Hydro Québec, Varennes, Canada)

Abstract

The multicommodity location-allocation problem with balancing requirements is related to one of the major logistics issues faced by distribution and transportation firms: the management of the fleet of vehicles over a medium to long-term planning horizon. We present a dual-ascent approach for this formulation which may be used either to obtain a good heuristic solution, or to compare sharp bounds in a branch-and-bound scheme. We present and compare two variants of this approach, and analyze their performances both on a large number of randomly generated problems and on a large-scale application to the strategic/tactical planning of the land operations of an international maritime container shipping firm. Our results demonstrate that a dual-ascent approach is highly effective in this context.

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  • Teodor Gabriel Crainic & Louis Delorme, 1993. "Dual-Ascent Procedures for Multicommodity Location-Allocation Problems with Balancing Requirements," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 27(2), pages 90-101, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:27:y:1993:i:2:p:90-101
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.27.2.90
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