- Title
- Time aggregation for network design to meet time-constrained demand
- Creator
- Boland, N.; Ernst, A.; Kalinowski, T.; Rocha de Paula, M.; Savelsbergh, M.; Singh, G.
- Relation
- 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2013). Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (Adelaide, S.A. 1-6 December, 2013) p. 3281-3287
- Relation
- http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2013/
- Publisher
- Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- We study a network design problem inspired by a strategic planning problem encountered in the Hunter Valley Coal Chain. Demand is given in the form of freight that is available from a specific date and has to be transported from multiple origins to a single destination before its deadline. It is possible to temporarily store freight at certain intermediate locations along the way from origins to destination. The objective is to determine minimum-cost capacity expansions required on the links and nodes of the network, if any, so as to be able to transport all freight within its given time windows. A natural mixed integer programming formulation with a daily granularity quickly becomes computationally intractable. We investigate the potential of time aggregation to overcome the computational challenges. By aggregating consecutive time periods, a smaller instance is obtained, which can be solved more easily and provides a lower bound on the optimal value. A carefully designed iterative disaggregation scheme identifies a time aggregation that yields an optimal solution to the original problem. An extensive computational study demonstrates the efficacy of the proposed approach.
- Subject
- network design problem; integer programming; time indexed models; time aggregation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1301803
- Identifier
- uon:20350
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780987214331
- Language
- eng
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