R. Rogulin

A two-echelon routing problem in forest-industry logistics with a nonlinear cost function: A modified ant colony algorithm on a transport graph with transit vertices

This paper studies the problem of planning forest-product transportation from a single shipping point through a network of intermediate transfer hubs to final consumers over a real road network. A key feature of the formulation is that the unit cost per kilometer depends nonlinearly on vehicle load: partially loaded tr...