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Development of an effective cost minimization model for food grain shipments

  • Lohithaksha Maiyar
    ,
  • Jitesh J. Thakkar
    ,
  • Anjali Awasthi
    ,
  • Manoj Kumar Tiwari
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Abstract

This paper makes an attempt to address the issue of food grain shipments taking a case of Indian food grain supply chain. The existing process of transportation and distribution has been represented as a four stage process. In this work only the first stage has been formulated as a bi-level nodal capacity network flow problem with linear model in the first level and a mixed integer non-linear model in the second level considering minimization of transportation costs. The model captures rail-road flexibility. Finally two variants of particle swarm optimization algorithms are used to solve the model and results are compared.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Conference article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 881-886

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

IFAC-PapersOnLine (Volume 48, Issue 3)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 31/08/2015

Publication status

Published - 31/08/2015

ISSN

2405-8971

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624665
  • Scopus: 84953863630

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