The Australia-Europe container system is formulated as a network flow model. The minimization of the cost of the movement of empty containers and the total container inventory is expressed as a linear programming problem. The problem is solved using an efficient heuristic method based on the special structure of the network.
In: Traffic flow and transportation : proceedings of the 5th international Symposium on the Theory of Traffic flow and Transportation, Berkeley, California, June 16-18, 1971, New York, NY, American Elsevier, 1972, p. 313-328, 5 fig., 1 graph., 6 tab., 3 ref.
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