We conduct a comprehensive review on multi-level facility location problems which extend
several classical facility location problems and can be regarded as a subclass within the …

Urban transportation systems are vulnerable to congestion, accidents, weather, special
events, and other costly delays. Whereas typical policy responses prioritize reduction of …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it classifies research on distribution
network design (DND) according to the methodologies adopted and themes tackled …

This paper is a survey of location-routing: a relatively new branch of locational analysis that
takes into account vehicle routing aspects. We propose a classification scheme and look at a …

In recent decades, global climate change has become one of the most critical environmental
issues, leading to increased environmental and social concerns about the sustainability of …

Measuring and controlling emissions across the logistics network is an important challenge
for today's firms according to increasing concern about the environmental impact of business …

Waste collection is a highly visible municipal service that involves large expenditures and
difficult operational problems, plus it is expensive to operate in terms of investment costs (ie …

This paper deals with the problem of optimally locating rail/road terminals for freight
transport. A linear 0-1 program is formulated and solved by a heuristic approach. The model …

The ever-growing applications of Additive Manufacturing (AM) in the production of low
volume-high value metal parts can be attributed to improving AM processing capabilities …

We introduce a combined facility location/network design problem in which facilities have
constraining capacities on the amount of demand they can serve. This model has a number …