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Introduction
Logistics is one of the key concepts of industrial engineering that has
received increasing attention throughout the years. is book focuses
on some recent developments in global logistics and will therefore
provide some of the more exciting applications, developments, and
implementations of classical operations research techniques on logis-
tics problems. is book contains 13 chapters on topics ranging from
continuous location models to disaster relief logistics. Chapters 1 and
2 are devoted to some variations and recent developments in the most
classical logistic problem, the vehicle routing problem (VRP), fol-
lowed by analyses and discussions on various logistics problems of
airline and marine systems. e book details a w ...