The Economic Choice of the Transportation Routes for Logistics Materiels

Abstract

Light Vehicle Battalions are used to transport logistic materiels from supply depots to combat units, on orders from high level logistics command. This thesis develops a linear programming model to determine which LVB should take which route, how much materiel it should take, and within what specific time it should travel to minimize transportation and storage costs. The linear programming model is derived from a peacetime scenario where each combat unit's demand varies seasonly. We report computational experience on a realistic problem using GAMS (the General Algebraic Modeling System).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA242066

Entities

People

  • Sook H. Kim

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Combat Readiness
  • Linear Programming
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Support
  • Maintenance
  • Mathematical Models
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Peacetime
  • Republic
  • Security
  • Supply Depots
  • Transport Ships
  • Transportation
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.