Article ID: | iaor20104994 |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 239 |
End Page Number: | 251 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2010 |
Journal: | IMA Journal of Management Mathematics |
Authors: | Giordani Stefano, Caramia Massimiliano, Iovanella Antonio |
Keywords: | hazmat |
Hazardous material (hazmat) transportation has received several attention in the past. On the one hand, this is motivated by the practical interest that hazmat transportation covers for safety reasons; on the other hand, it has attracted the study of those researchers working on vehicle routing since relevant hazmat transportation issues are concerned with finding routes with minimum cost and minimum risk. The former objective is mainly related to the carrier point of view, whereas the latter objective takes into account the government point of view. In this paper, we propose a new approach for planning routes for hazmat shipments that selects