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Title:

Biofuel Refinery Location and Biomass Transportation Planning under Traffic Congestion

Accession Number:

01155499

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This research focuses on planning biofuel refinery locations where the total system cost for refinery investment, public travel and transportation of biomass is minimized. Biomass shipment routing and the resulting traffic congestion are incorporated into the model to decide locations of biofuel refineries. A Lagrangian relaxation (LR) based heuristic algorithm is introduced to obtain near-optimum feasible solutions efficiently. To further ensure optimality, a branch and bound framework with linear programming (LP) and a Lagrangian relaxation (LR) bounding procedures are developed. Numerical examples demonstrated that the proposed algorithms solve the problem efficiently. Finally, an empirical case study based on Illinois biofuel production projection is conducted to show the effect of highway congestion on system costs.

Monograph Accession #:

01147878

Report/Paper Numbers:

10-0444

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Bai, Yun
Hwang, Taesung
Kang, Seungmo
Ouyang, Yanfeng

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2010

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2010-1-10 to 2010-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (20) ; Tables (2)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Lagrangian relaxation approach

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-0444

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 25 2010 10:14AM