Location of AlternativeFuel Stations Using the Fl

Authors: Michael Kuby Seow Lim

Publish Date: 2006/12/19

Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 129-152

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Abstract

The Flow Refueling Location Model FRLM is a flowintercepting model that locates p stations on a network to maximize the refueling of origin–destination flows Because of the limited driving range of vehicles network vertices do not constitute a finite dominating set This paper extends the FRLM by adding candidate sites along arcs using three methods The first identifies arc segments where a single facility could refuel a path that would otherwise require two facilities at vertices to refuel it The other methods use the AddedNode Dispersion Problem ANDP to disperse candidate sites along arcs by minimax and maximin methods While none of the methods generate a finite dominating set results show that adding ANDP sites produces better solutions than midpath segments or vertices only

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