| Article ID: | iaor2003627 |
| Country: | China |
| Volume: | 23 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| Start Page Number: | 74 |
| End Page Number: | 77 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2001 |
| Journal: | Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics |
| Authors: | Hu Xiangdong, Zhang Haisheng |
| Keywords: | programming: linear |
A routing and scheduling hierarchy model is initially built for postal transportation operations in China based on the analysis of important factors. This model divides postal logistics planning into three steps: routing, scheduling and transporting with schema for these automatically generating by a computer. Fuzzy decision methods make optimized schema reasonable on a time/cost effective base.