The hub location problem is important in the selection of technological networks, such as computer, cellular, or wireless sensor networks. These modern communication networks must be dynamically set as triggered by changes in external conditions; the nodes deplete their batteries and go out of service. For this reason, it is necessary to update the available data in order to determine which nod...

Transportation costs are a significant part of capital and operating costs of large open pit mines. Cost efficiency and high reliability of in pit crushing and conveying systems compared to conventional truck-shovel system makes it more appealing to be utilized in modern mining activities. In this paper the suitable location of an in pit crusher is investigated as a single hub location problem....

Hubs act as intermediate points for the transfer of materials in transportation system. In this study, a novel p-mobile hub location–allocation problem is developed. Hub facilities can be transferred to other hubs next period. Implementation mobile reduce costs opening and closing hubs, particularly an environment with rapidly changing demands. On hand, movement reduces lifespan adds relevant c...

In this paper, we present a new formulation of one-stop capacitated hub-and-spoke model as a natural extension of the uncapacitated one-stop model. The model involves arc capacity constraints as well as hub capacity constraints, which enables us to incorporate some practical factors into the model. We also present a branch-and-bound based exact solution method with Lagrangian relaxation boundin...

In many logistic systems for less than truckload (LTL) shipments, transportation of goods from one origin to its destination is made through collection tours to a hub and delivery tours from the same or another hub, while the goods are shipped between two hubs using Full Truckload (FTL) shipments. Therefore, managers need to determine the location of the hubs, the allocation of non-hub nodes, a...

Maritime cabotage is a legislation published by a particular coastal country, which is used to conduct the cargo transportation between its two domestic ports. This paper proposes a two-phase mathematical programming model to formulate the liner hub-and-spoke shipping network design problem subject to the maritime cabotage legislations, i.e., the hub location and feeder allocation problem for p...

The uniform capacitated vertex k -center problem is an \(\mathcal {NP} \) -hard combinatorial optimization that models real situations where centers can only attend a maximum number of customers, and the travel time or distance from customers to their assigned center has be minimized. This paper introduces polynomial-time constructive heuristic algorithm exploits relationship between this minim...