Where to place cross-docking points?

Abstract

Recently, driven by industrial applications, researchers started considering facility location and vehicle routing simultaneously [3] and named it location routing. In this paper we consider an example of location routing problem whose main focus is cross-docking points positioning. We present two approaches for determining promising locations for cross-docking points. The first one is dynamic, i.e. meeting points are chosen during a heuristic, while the second one uses a partitioning approach based on minimum spanning tree with positioning done via calculating p-medians.