Collection/Transportation
Collection/transportation has come up as a new research paradigm in operations management (Dekker, Bloemhof, & Mallidis, 2012; Fleischmann et al., 1997; Guide & Jayaraman, 2000). For example, in (Aksen, Aras, & Karaarslan, 2009; Kulshreshtha & Sarangi, 2001; Sheu, Chou, & Hu, 2005), the authors studied the subsidization agreement between the government and a company engaged in collection and recovery operations; in (Ferguson & Toktay, 2006; Mitra & Webster, 2008), the authors focused their research on using collection to limit the availability of used products for competitors; in (Barros, Dekker, & Scholten, 1998; Jayaraman, Patterson, & Rolland, 2003; Louwers, Kip, Peters, Souren, & Flapper, 1999; Min, Ko, & Ko, 2006), the authors considered discrete facility location-allocation models with deterministic collection quantities; in (Alinovi, Bottani, & Montanari, 2012; Aras & Aksen, 2008; Aras, Aksen, & Tanugur, 2008; Guide, Teunter, & Wassenhove, 2003; Ray, Boyaci, & Aras, 2005), the authors studied on incentive-dependent modelling of collection; in addition Wojanowski, Verter, and Boyaci (2007) studied the issues of network design under deposit-refund; and Savaskan and Wassenhove (2006) considered the tradeoffs between two collection channel structure (i.e., direct and indirect).