IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/navres/v55y2008i6p493-515.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Network design for time‐constrained delivery

Author

Listed:
  • Hui Chen
  • Ann Melissa Campbell
  • Barrett W. Thomas

Abstract

To meet customer demand, delivery companies are offering an increasing number of time‐definite services. In this article, we examine the strategic design of delivery networks which can efficiently provide these services. Because of the high cost of direct connections, we focus on tree‐structured networks. As it may not be possible to identify a tree‐structured network that satisfies all of the delivery guarantees, we allow these guarantees to be violated but seek to minimize the sum of the violations. We establish the complexity of the problem and exploit an empirically identified solution structure to create new neighborhoods which improve solution values over more general neighborhood structures. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008

Suggested Citation

  • Hui Chen & Ann Melissa Campbell & Barrett W. Thomas, 2008. "Network design for time‐constrained delivery," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 55(6), pages 493-515, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:55:y:2008:i:6:p:493-515
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.20302
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.20302
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/nav.20302?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Gouveia, Luis, 1996. "Multicommodity flow models for spanning trees with hop constraints," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 95(1), pages 178-190, November.
    2. R. K. Ahuja & V. V. S. Murty, 1987. "Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for the Optimum Communication Spanning Tree Problem," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 21(3), pages 163-170, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Konak, Abdullah, 2012. "Network design problem with relays: A genetic algorithm with a path-based crossover and a set covering formulation," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 218(3), pages 829-837.
    2. Luis Gouveia, 1998. "Using Variable Redefinition for Computing Lower Bounds for Minimum Spanning and Steiner Trees with Hop Constraints," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 10(2), pages 180-188, May.
    3. Gouveia, Luis & Janssen, Eric, 1998. "Designing reliable tree networks with two cable technologies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 105(3), pages 552-568, March.
    4. Iago A. Carvalho & Amadeu A. Coco, 2023. "On solving bi-objective constrained minimum spanning tree problems," Journal of Global Optimization, Springer, vol. 87(1), pages 301-323, September.
    5. Richard Church & John Current, 1993. "Maximal covering tree problems," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 40(1), pages 129-142, February.
    6. Zetina, Carlos Armando & Contreras, Ivan & Fernández, Elena & Luna-Mota, Carlos, 2019. "Solving the optimum communication spanning tree problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 273(1), pages 108-117.
    7. Prabha Sharma, 2006. "Algorithms for the optimum communication spanning tree problem," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 143(1), pages 203-209, March.
    8. Fernandes, Lucinda Matos & Gouveia, Luis, 1998. "Minimal spanning trees with a constraint on the number of leaves," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 104(1), pages 250-261, January.
    9. Yogesh Kumar Agarwal & Prahalad Venkateshan, 2019. "New Valid Inequalities for the Optimal Communication Spanning Tree Problem," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 31(2), pages 268-284, April.
    10. Okan Arslan & Ola Jabali & Gilbert Laporte, 2020. "A Flexible, Natural Formulation for the Network Design Problem with Vulnerability Constraints," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 32(1), pages 120-134, January.
    11. Seyed Babak Ebrahimi & Ehsan Bagheri, 2022. "A multi-objective formulation for the closed-loop plastic supply chain under uncertainty," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(5), pages 4725-4768, November.
    12. Fortz, Bernard & Oliveira, Olga & Requejo, Cristina, 2017. "Compact mixed integer linear programming models to the minimum weighted tree reconstruction problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(1), pages 242-251.
    13. Akgün, Ibrahim & Tansel, Barbaros Ç., 2011. "New formulations of the Hop-Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree problem via Miller-Tucker-Zemlin constraints," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 212(2), pages 263-276, July.
    14. Quentin Botton & Bernard Fortz & Luis Gouveia & Michael Poss, 2013. "Benders Decomposition for the Hop-Constrained Survivable Network Design Problem," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 25(1), pages 13-26, February.
    15. Ivan Contreras & Elena Fernández & Alfredo Marín, 2010. "Lagrangean bounds for the optimum communication spanning tree problem," TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer;Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, vol. 18(1), pages 140-157, July.
    16. Scheibe, Kevin P. & Ragsdale, Cliff T., 2009. "A model for the capacitated, hop-constrained, per-packet wireless mesh network design problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 197(2), pages 773-784, September.
    17. Li, Gang & Balakrishnan, Anantaram, 2016. "Models and algorithms for network reduction," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 248(3), pages 930-942.
    18. Uchoa, Eduardo & Pecin, Diego & Pessoa, Artur & Poggi, Marcus & Vidal, Thibaut & Subramanian, Anand, 2017. "New benchmark instances for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 257(3), pages 845-858.
    19. Khodakaram Salimifard & Sara Bigharaz, 2022. "The multicommodity network flow problem: state of the art classification, applications, and solution methods," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(1), pages 1-47, March.
    20. Costa, Alysson M. & Cordeau, Jean-François & Laporte, Gilbert, 2008. "Fast heuristics for the Steiner tree problem with revenues, budget and hop constraints," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 190(1), pages 68-78, October.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:55:y:2008:i:6:p:493-515. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://doi.org/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6750 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.