Network design and delivery scheme optimisation under integrated air-rail freight transportation

To promote the domestic economy and reduce transport costs, it is necessary for Chinese express companies to adopt the integrated air-rail freight transport mode. Thus, a major challenge is to determine how to efficiently use three kinds of transport vehicles: cargo aircraft, passenger aircraft bellies and high-speed train (HST) bellies. Therefore, in this paper, a bi-level model is constructed to allow an express company to optimise its integrated air-rail transport network and parcel delivery scheme. A hybrid algorithm is developed for solving the model. Data from the logistics company SF Express are used for a case study. From the calculated results, we find that the HST transport mode plays the main role, it can replace the passenger aircraft transportation to a large extent. Moreover, the total transport cost depends on the rental price of HST space largely. Furthermore, the timeliness requirement can largely influence the HST transportation ratio.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2021.1928032
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  • © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Abstract reprinted with permission of Taylor & Francis.
• Authors:
  • Yu, Shunan
  • Jiang, Yonglei
• Publication Date: 2024-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 411-427
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
  • Volume: 27
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 1367-5567
  • EISSN: 1469-848X
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjol20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cargo aircraft; Freight traffic; Freight trains; Intermodal transportation
• Geographic Terms: China
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01913058
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 26 2024 2:41PM