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 …

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

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 …

Multimodal hub location and hub network design

SA Alumur, BY Kara, OE Karasan - Omega, 2012 - Elsevier
Through observations from real life hub networks, we introduce the multimodal hub location
and hub network design problem. We approach the hub location problem from a network …

Hierarchical multimodal hub location problem with time-definite deliveries

SA Alumur, H Yaman, BY Kara - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics …, 2012 - Elsevier
Hierarchical multimodal hub location problem is a cost-minimizing hub covering problem
where two types of hubs and hub links, accounting for ground and air transportation, are to …

The design of single allocation incomplete hub networks

SA Alumur, BY Kara, OE Karasan - Transportation Research Part B …, 2009 - Elsevier
The hub location problem deals with finding the location of hub facilities and allocating the
demand nodes to these hub facilities so as to effectively route the demand between any …

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 …

General network design: A unified view of combined location and network design problems

I Contreras, E Fernández - European Journal of Operational Research, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents a unified framework for the general network design problem which
encompasses several classical problems involving combined location and network design …

Robust intermodal hub location under polyhedral demand uncertainty

M Meraklı, H Yaman - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, we consider the robust uncapacitated multiple allocation p-hub median
problem under polyhedral demand uncertainty. We model the demand uncertainty in two …

The hierarchical hub median problem with single assignment

H Yaman - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2009 - Elsevier
We study the problem of designing a three level hub network where the top level consists of
a complete network connecting the so-called central hubs and the second and third levels …