Network hub location problems: The state of the art

S Alumur, BY Kara - European journal of operational research, 2008 - Elsevier
Hubs are special facilities that serve as switching, transshipment and sorting points in many-
to-many distribution systems. The hub location problem is concerned with locating hub …

Hub location problems: A review of models, classification, solution techniques, and applications

RZ Farahani, M Hekmatfar, AB Arabani… - Computers & industrial …, 2013 - Elsevier
Hub location problem (HLP) is a relatively new extension of classical facility location
problems. Hubs are facilities that work as consolidation, connecting, and switching points for …

Hub location problems

I Contreras, M O'Kelly - Location science, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Hub Location Problems (HLPs) lie at the heart of network design planning in
transportation and telecommunication systems. They constitute a challenging class of …

The stochastic p-hub center problem with service-level constraints

T Sim, TJ Lowe, BW Thomas - Computers & operations research, 2009 - Elsevier
Small package delivery companies offer services where packages are guaranteed to be
delivered within a given time-frame. With variability in travel time, the configuration on the …

[HTML][HTML] A new formulation and an exact approach for the many-to-many hub location-routing problem

RS de Camargo, G de Miranda… - Applied Mathematical …, 2013 - Elsevier
An important problem of the freight industry is the parcel delivery network design, where
several facilities are responsible for assembling flows from several origins, re-routing them …

The p-hub centre routing problem with emissions budget: Formulation and solution procedure

M Oudani, T Aouam, M Ghogho - Computers & Operations Research, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the use of fossil fuels has led to a drastic increase in the emissions of CO 2
and other greenhouse polluting gases. The transportation sector stands out as one of the …

A 2-phase algorithm for solving the single allocation p-hub center problem

T Meyer, AT Ernst, M Krishnamoorthy - Computers & Operations Research, 2009 - Elsevier
The single allocation p-hub center problem is an NP-hard location–allocation problem which
consists of locating hub facilities in a network and allocating non-hub nodes to hub nodes …

A game-based meta-heuristic for a fuzzy bi-objective reliable hub location problem

M Mohammadi, R Tavakkoli-Moghaddam… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2016 - Elsevier
Nowadays, offering fast and reliable delivery service has become a vital issue associated
with all shipment delivery systems. Due to unpredictable variability in travel times …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling fuzzy capacitated p-hub center problem and a genetic algorithm solution

M Bashiri, M Mirzaei, M Randall - Applied mathematical modelling, 2013 - Elsevier
Hub and spoke networks are used to switch and transfer commodities between terminal
nodes in distribution systems at minimum cost and/or time. The p-hub center allocation …

A chance constrained programming approach for uncertain p-hub center location problem

Y Gao, Z Qin - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
The p-hub center location problem aims to locate p hubs and allocate other nodes to these
hub nodes in order to minimize the maximal travel time. It is more important for time-sensitive …