Study on the Location of the Rail/Road Intermodal Terminals under Fuzzy

Author

Jiang Ge-Feng ; Cui Guang-Bin ; Li Yi-jun ; Ai Wen-guo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Locating rail/road intermodal terminals for freight is decided by the spatial distribution of the multimodal transport network and the shortest path between supply node and demand node. The location problem of rail/ road transfer terminals is formulated by an integer linear programming model. Considering the fuzzy uncertainty in intermodal transport network, the solution to the location model is proposed by the node label algorithm of the fuzzy shortest path with uncertainty arc length. The efficiency and the accuracy of our proposed approach are demonstrated by an illustrative example.

Keywords

freight handling; fuzzy set theory; integer programming; linear programming; railways; fuzzy shortest path; fuzzy uncertainty; integer linear programming model; intermodal transport network; multimodal transport network; node label algorithm; railroad intermodal terminal location; Costs; Dispatching; Globalization; Integer linear programming; Rails; Road vehicles; Routing; Technology management; Transportation; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.1638

Filename

4679546