Title: Developing the mathematical model for hub location problem in line with resistive economy approach

Authors: Akram Ali Kazemi; Reza Ehtesham Rasi

Addresses: Department of Industrial Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran ' Department of Industrial Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

Abstract: From the strategic managers' point of view, locating a hub facility with a structure based on maximising flow and minimising lost costs are important part of the strategic decisions of the organisation. Hence, the purpose of locating service providers is to reduce costs and create appropriate conditions in the service network because of the wide variety of costs involved and great effects have on managerial decisions. The present study introduces a new problem in the field of hub location with a preventive reliability approach for transmitting the flow before hubs failure in which high reliability flow is released. Due to importance of resistive economy, in this paper a multi-objective mixed-integer programming has been provided for the country's transport network in order to prevent the flow waste and the weighted-sum approach has been utilised to solve it.

Keywords: hub location; reliability; backup hub; hub failure; resistive economy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMOM.2019.103032

International Journal of Modelling in Operations Management, 2019 Vol.7 No.3, pp.183 - 195

Received: 28 Jun 2018
Accepted: 12 Apr 2019
Published online: 14 Oct 2019 *

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