Procedures for Vehicle Routing Problems with An Application to Milk Assembly in New York

J.M. Sehulster, J.E. Pratt and Andrew M. Novakovic

No 183858, Staff Papers from Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management

Abstract: This paper discusses improved procedures for applying heuristic methods to well-known transportation and routing algorithms for solving a milk assembly problem. Miles traveled to assemble milk are reduced by up to 20 percent in a detailed case study in New York.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 1982-05
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.183858

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