Paper Title
Optimal Transport in Hand-Picked Agriculture
Presenter(s)
Richard Sowers
Abstract
We develop and analyze a model for scheduling transport for perishable products. In the field, fluctuations in harvest rate lead to uncertainty as to the optimal time to request transport to a cooling facility. While the harvested fruit is waiting in the field, it is decaying and losing quality. This leads to a question of balancing harvest quality vs quantity.
Our model is continuous in both time and quality, and leads to computationally solvable optimization problem which we can solve. We show some numerical results in some cases drawn from real observations.
Topic
Economics
Start Date
6-17-2016 8:50 AM
End Date
6-17-2016 9:10 AM
Room
High Country Conference Center
Recommended Citation
Sowers, Richard and Sowers, Devasia, "Optimal Transport in Hand-Picked Agriculture" (2016). World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling. 29.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/rma/all/presentations/29
Optimal Transport in Hand-Picked Agriculture
High Country Conference Center
We develop and analyze a model for scheduling transport for perishable products. In the field, fluctuations in harvest rate lead to uncertainty as to the optimal time to request transport to a cooling facility. While the harvested fruit is waiting in the field, it is decaying and losing quality. This leads to a question of balancing harvest quality vs quantity.
Our model is continuous in both time and quality, and leads to computationally solvable optimization problem which we can solve. We show some numerical results in some cases drawn from real observations.