Iraqi Army logistics

NPR's All Things Considered:
Iraqi Army Has Control, but No Logistics

A new northern passage?

Scientists shocked as Arctic polar route emerges

This is actually somewhat old news - for several years now folks have been anticipating new northern passages through the Arctic past Canada and past Russia.

Military photos

Many of these photos are logistics-related:
Current Year (in left navbar), Previous Years

Congress

Congressional Modeling & Simulation Caucus

The perils of "roll your own" WMSs

Beware the programming guru

Road hazard

Consider the perils of being a truck driver in Malyaysia: giant snakes on the road.

Split shipment fiasco

18 towels from amazon.com = 18 boxes
(via BoingBoing.net)

Wonder Warehouse 1962?

An interesting ad from the November 1956 issue of Modern Mechanix.

Disaster logistics

MIT professor and logistics expert Yossi Sheffi appeared on WBUR's "Here and Now" radio program: Fixing FEMA

Euclidean TSP in Excel VBA

TSP_draw.xls is a simple Excel VBA program that solves Euclidean traveling salesman problems and displays solutions graphically.

The program is "rough" - it was written such that beginning coders could modify and improve it.

Link: TSP_draw.xls
Capabilities: Euclidean TSP - solution algorithms and graphical display
Author: Michael H. Cole
License: GPL
Platform requirements: Microsoft Excel (VBA)
User-modifiable: Yes
Version: alpha

Over capacitated

Pics of overloaded vehicles.

Daskin's "states" software

This software solves a TSP problem and a facilities location problem that use the 48 state capitals (and D.C.) as the underlying data set.

Link: http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~msdaskin/Software.htm
Capabilities: TSP, location
Author: Mark S. Daskin
License: ?
Platform requirements: Microsoft Excel
User-modifiable: ?
Version: ?

Daskin's "SITUATION" facility location software

Software to accompany Daskin's text: Network and Discrete Location: Models, Algorithms, and Applications.

Link: http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~msdaskin/BookSoftware.htm
Capabilities: P-median, P-center, Set Covering, Maximal Covering, Uncapacitated Fixed Charge Problems
Author: Mark S. Daskin
License: ?
Platform requirements: Microsoft Windows
User-modifiable: ?
Version: 5.7.0.9

Floyd's shortest path algorithm

floyd.xls is a simple Excel VBA program that implements Floyd's algorithm for finding the shortest paths between all nodes in a network. The program was written such that beginning coders could modify and improve it.

Capabilities: find shortest paths between all pairs of nodes in a network
Author: Michael H. Cole
License: GPL
Platform requirements: Microsoft Excel (VBA)
User-modifiable: Yes
Version: alpha

1-center facility location problem

hakimi_5.xls is a simple Excel VBA program that demonstrates Hakimi's algorithm for solving the 1-center facility location problem. The program was written such that beginning coders could modify and improve it.

Capabilities: site a single facility on a network to minimax customer travel time
Author: Michael H. Cole
License: GPL
Platform requirements: Microsoft Excel (VBA)
User-modifiable: Yes
Version: alpha

Warehouse tour - Newegg

Newegg warehouse (via www.anandtech.com)

Article in NY TImes

Some Assembly Needed: China as Asia Factory (free registration required).

Houston road network

See www.houstonfreeways.com for an exhaustive pictorial history of Houston's extensive network of freeways.

Aggregating customers

Aggregate.xls is a simple Excel VBA program that demonstrates customer aggregation. The program was written such that beginning coders could modify and improve it.

Capabilities: graphically aggregate n customers into 100 customers
Author: Michael H. Cole
License: GPL
Platform requirements: Microsoft Excel (VBA)
User-modifiable: Yes
Version: alpha

City infrastructure

The Works: anatomy of a city (Kate Ascher) examines the infrastructure of a typical large city.

Logistics-related chapters include: Streets, Subway, Bridges & Tunnels, Rail Freight, Maritime Freight, Air Cargo, and Markets.