Refueling strategies to maximize the operational range of a nonidentical vehicle fleet

Recently Mehrez et al., Mehrez and Stern and Melkman et al. studied a vehicle fleet refueling problem that arises in military applications and is aimed at maximizing the operational range of the fleet. More specifically, they investigated the problem of maximizing the range of the last vehicle from a fleet of n vehicles by employing a pure refueling chain strategy. However, the problem is solved only for the vehicles with the same fuel …