Article ID: | iaor200389 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 15 |
End Page Number: | 24 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2002 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Drezner Zvi, Wesolowsky George O., Berman Oded |
Keywords: | geography & environment |
In this paper we investigate the collection depots location problem on a network. A facility needs to be located to serve a set of customers. Each service consists of a trip to the customer, collecting materials, dropping the materials at one of the available collection depots and returning to the facility to wait for the next call. Two objectives are considered: minimizing the weighted sum of distances and minimizing the maximum distance. The properties of the solutions to these problems are described.