Designing a Reliable and Dynamic Multimodal Transportation Network for Biofuel Supply Chains
Designing a Reliable and Dynamic Multimodal Transportation Network for Biofuel Supply Chains
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10.1287/trsc.2015.0632
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2017-05
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M. Marufuzzaman;S. Eksioglu
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M. Marufuzzaman;S. Eksioglu
This paper presents a cost-efficient and reliable supply chain network design model for biomass to be delivered to biofuel plants. Biomass is bulky, so transportation modes such as rail and barge can be used to deliver this product. For this reason, this study focuses on multimodal supply chain designs for biofuel. Biomass supply is highly seasonal, but the high production seasons for biomass in the Southeast United States often coincide with or are followed by hurricanes, and drought seasons, both of which impact transportation. The dynamic multimodel transportation network design model this paper presents enables this supply chain to cope with biomass supply fluctuations and to hedge against natural disasters. The mixed-integer nonlinear programming model proposed is an 𝒩𝒫-hard problem, and we develop an accelerated Benders decomposition algorithm and a hybrid rolling horizon algorithm to solve this problem. We tested the performance of the algorithm on a case study using data from the Southeast United ...