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Raimonds Aronietis, Edwin van Hassel, Thierry Vanelslander
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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
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Qing Liu, Yang Yang, Adolf K. Y. Ng, Changmin Jiang
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Xu Xu, Yanbin Yang
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ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2023)
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Cesar Ducruet
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(2022)
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HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
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(2022)
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(2021)
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