Title :
Approach to the Design of Domestic Airfreight Transport Network
Author :
Xuefeng, Wang ; Jian, Wang ; Renqin, Li ; Renxiang, Wang
Author_Institution :
Int. Shipping Dept., Shanghai Maritime Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
In airfreight transportation, some direct shipments do suffer from the high airfreight cost. If the reasonable transport routes are developed, the transport and storage costs will be reduced greatly. Based on a leading airfreight transport provider, the description of route development and the related assumptions are studied, and route development and cost optimization model are set up. The data are collected for Lingo program running. According to the optimized result, the domestic airfreight transport network is discussed. The analysis aiming at changing some constraints to meet different customers´ and suppliers´ requirements are processed. The results are found practicable.
Keywords :
cost reduction; freight handling; transportation; Lingo program; cost optimization model; domestic airfreight transport network; route development; storage cost reduction; transport cost reduction; Air transportation; Aircraft; Airplanes; Computer networks; Cost function; Design automation; Economies of scale; Electronic mail; Intelligent networks; Road transportation; airfreight transport; network design; optimization; route;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation, 2009. ICICTA '09. Second International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3804-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICICTA.2009.587