A Fair Voting Mechanism for Food Distribution Network Design Based on Economic and Sustainability Factors
Debdatta Sinha Roy （ University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA ）
https://doi.org/10.37155/2972-4813-gep0302-2Abstract
Governments from developing nations need to build green cities,and food distribution man-agement plays a pivotal role.Distribution network design decisions for setting up warehousesand building road networks need to be based on various economic and sustainability factors.We present a fair voting mechanism to easily choose the best possible set of options by seam-lessly considering the different factors.In the processwe make some good contributions tothe social choice literature.
Keywords
Sustainability;Distribution network;Social choice;Strategy-proofFull Text
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