Continuous approximation models in freight distribution management

Anna Franceschetti (), Ola Jabali () and Gilbert Laporte ()
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Anna Franceschetti: HEC Montréal
Ola Jabali: Politecnico di Milano
Gilbert Laporte: HEC Montréal

TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 2017, vol. 25, issue 3, No 1, 413-433

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents an overview of the literature on continuous approximation models in the context of distribution management. It first describes the seminal contributions of Beardwood, Halton and Hammersley, and of Daganzo and Newell. This is followed by a summary of various extensions, and by applications to districting, location, fleet sizing and vehicle routing.

Keywords: Traveling salesman problem; Vehicle routing problem; Asymptotic results; Partitioning strategies; 90B06 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11750-017-0456-1

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