TITLE: Optimizing Transportation Hub Location and Hub Network Design

ABSTRACT: Hub networks provide efficient transportation between many origins and many destinations. Over the past twenty-five years, researchers have addressed a wide range of hub location and hub network design problems motivated by air, ground and water transportation systems. This first half of the presentation provides a quick overview of hub location research, including motivation for “classic” hub location problems, alternative formulations and optimal solution methods. The second half of the presentation highlights some recent research on competitive Stackelberg hub arc location and network design models for airfreight and passenger transportation.