performance on these dispatch models in lieu of their solution as integer programs. Objectives include minimizing transportation …

To reduce lead-time and its variability, modern supply and transportation contracts often specify the frequency of, and …., Y. Gerchak. 1989. Transportation contracts and safety stocks for just-in-time deliveries. Manufacturing and Oper … transportation costs. We then use the resulting total costs to derive the optimal contract volume. Various examples are provided. The …

suffering undesirable consequences of an accident. The main responsibility to mitigate the hazmat transport risk at a population … determined by the regulator. The transport risk in the region, however, is determined by the carriers' routing decisions over the … a certain compromise between the two parties in terms of transport risk and economic viability. The proposed framework …

Erratum to the author's paper "The Adoption Time Period for Some Transportation Innovations," Management Sci., Vol. 25 …

In a transportation problem, generally, a single criterion of minimizing the total cost is considered. But in certain …, consumption of certain scarce resources such as energy, total deterioration of goods during transportation, etc. Clearly, this … bicriteria transportation problem, it is applicable to any bicriteria linear program in general. The bottleneck criterion …

, subject to a constraint that the average waiting time for material transport in the system not exceed a predefined limit. The …

frequencies is available, in such a way that the sum of the transportation and inventory costs is minimized. This problem, which … is known to be NP-hard, has applications in transportation planning and in location analysis. In this paper we derive …