Purpose: Hub location problems have been utilized in various applications including rail transportation network planning, where hub serves as a key transit point within the network. In this paper, we focus on determining the optimal location for a rail transportation hub, where cost and service...

Background: Logistics and transport, core of many business processes, are continuously optimized to improve efficiency and market competitiveness. The paper describes a modular coordination of vehicle routing and bin packing problems that enables independent instances of the problems to be...