| Article ID: | iaor20082675 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 1601 |
| End Page Number: | 1615 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2007 |
| Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
| Authors: | Storchi Giovanni, Angelis Vanda De, Mecoli Mariagrazia, Nikoi Chris |
| Keywords: | scheduling, programming: integer, developing countries |
This paper deals with the weekly planning of WFP emergency deliveries of food aid by air in Angola, where planes are required to travel back and forth between depots and clients, deliver entire loads to the client reached every time and, at night, park at a depot, subject to parking space availability. An ILP model has been formulated, called the VRVDFL model, tailored for the real problem, and has been solved. The computational experience is reported.