Although current technologies allow simple online banking transactions, it is vital to guarantee access bank branches both for customers and businesses. Banking branch interactions improve trust in institutions everyday situations emergencies. This research addresses the problem of location facilities. A set objective functions related socio-economic variables, geographical coverage bankers pre...

Disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, floods and COVID-19 continue to threaten the lives of people in all countries. In order cover basic needs victims, emergency logistics should be implemented time. Location-routing problem (LRP) tackles facility location vehicle routing simultaneously obtain overall optimization. response shortage relief materials early post-disaster stage, a multi-object...

Determining the optimal layout of an intermodal terminal network, more specifically the optimal locations of the terminals, is a complicated matter that requires adequate decision support tools. In this paper, a bi-objective model is developed, minimizing both the transportation cost for the users of the terminal network, as well as the location cost for the terminal operators. A problem-specif...

in this paper, the capacitated location-routing problem with fuzzy demands (clrp-fd) is considered. the clrp-fd is composed of two well-known problems: facility location problem and vehicle routing problem. the problem has many real-life applications of which some have been addressed in the literature such as management of hazardous wastes and food and drink distribution. in clrp-fd, a set of c...

nowadays, the environmental impact of transportation project and, especially air pollution impacts, are major concerns in evaluating transportation projects. based on this concern, beside definition of traditional objective functions like total travel time and total investment cost, different type of environmental related function is considered as objective function in urban network design. in...