Optimizing petrol stations replenishment

大多数大型北美汽油销售公司将其品牌加油站的补给交给私人汽油运输公司。通常，同一家运输公司为不同品牌的车站提供服务。在加拿大，2010年将汽油产品从储存站运送到零售油站的运输成本估计约为4.8亿加元。然而，这种运输公司的补给业务和网络的优化得到了很少的研究工作。实际上，加拿大研究人员只发表了六篇关于这一主题的研究论文，其他六篇由加拿大以外的研究人员发表。 我很自豪能成为所有加拿大研究出版物的合著者，特别是因为没有其他加拿大研究团队在这一领域进行研究。

Most big North American petrol marketer companies subcontract the replenishment of their branded petrol stations to private petrol transportation companies. Often, the same transportation company services the stations of different brands. In Canada, the transportation cost of delivering petrol products from storage terminals to retailing petrol stations is estimated to be about 480 million $ in 2010. However the optimization of replenishment operations and networks of such transportation companies has received very little research effort. Actually, only six research papers dealing with this topic were published by Canadian researchers and six others by researchers from outside Canada. I am proud to be the coauthor of all the Canadian research publications especially as there is no other Canadian research team doing research in this field.