0377-2217/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2011.01.014 ⇑ Tel.: +90 312 290 27 68; fax: +90 312 266 40 54. E-mail address: [email protected] In this paper, we study allocation strategies and their effects on total routing costs in hub networks. Given a set of nodes with pairwise traffic demands, the p-hub median problem is the problem of choosing p nodes as hub loca...

This paper deals with a capacitated hub location problem arising in the design of telecommunications networks. The problem is different from the classical hub location problem in two ways: the cost of using an edge is not linear but stepwise and the capacity of a hub restricts the amount of traffic transiting through the hub rather than the incoming traffic. In this paper both an exact and a he...

This study formulates a two-objective model to determine the optimal liner routing, ship size, and sailing frequency for container carriers by minimizing shipping costs and inventory costs. First, shipping and inventory cost functions are formulated using an analytical method. Then, based on a trade-off between shipping costs and inventory costs, Pareto optimal solutions of the twoobjective mod...

This paper presents a new multi-objective mathematical model for the hub location and routing problem under uncertainty in flows, costs, times, number of job opportunities. aims at minimizing total transportation cost consisting fixed maximizing employment regional development as social responsibility. An M/M/c/K queue system is applied to estimate waiting time nodes maximize responsiveness. Al...

The usability of hub location models heavily depends on an appropriate modelling approach for the economies of scale. Realistic hub location models require more sophisticated transport cost structures than the traditional α-discount. We develop a general modelling scheme for such problems allowing the definition of complicated (non-linear) costs and constraints; its structure allows an abstract...

In this study a hierarchical hub location problem with two layers is considered. The first layer includes small hubs and the second one includes a star-shaped network central hub. The considered case is a cargo delivery network where there is hierarchy between hubs. All the hubs and links are capacitated and there are three kinds of commodities for each of which there is a special kind of vehic...

In hub-and-spoke systems, due to the changes in input parameters affecting system over time, transportation providers should make right and timely decisions about hub facilities. For this reason, multi-period location problems are especially important. This paper presents a comprehensive review of from 1990 up most recent published studies. First, we study developed models based on some charact...

this paper proposes a new mathematical model for designing and planning postal parcels carriage and postal networks. the objective of postal network designing is to determine the location, size and connection between the postal stations in a city, province or country. in this paper, a kind of multiple locations-allocations hub problem with limited capacity in collecting, distributing and broadc...