The dynamic p-median problem with mobile facilities

2019-09-01
Guden, Huseyin
Süral, Haldun
Being motivated by real life applications in construction management, we consider the dynamic p-median problem and its extension with mobile facilities. The number of facilities changes over a planning horizon where one or more facilities can be opened, relocated, or closed in any period. The problem is to determine (i) facility locations, (ii) opening/closing times of facilities, (iii) routes of mobile facilities, and (iv) demand allocations to open facilities such that the total cost is minimized. We present a mixed integer programming formulation of the dynamic p-median problem using discretization of distances to control the locational decision variables. We develop a branch and price algorithm and constructive heuristics to solve the problem. Extensive computational results of the solution method are provided on a set of test problem instances.
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

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Citation Formats
H. Guden and H. Süral, “The dynamic p-median problem with mobile facilities,” COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, pp. 615–627, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34441.