We consider the hub-and-spoke setting of the railway station, where freight cars are hauled over night from many sources to many destinations. To this aim, trains collect the cars from the source stations, along a route to the hub. The hub is a shunting yard with a hump, where the cars are rearranged and routed to their delivery stations in new trains. In our paper we optimize model of hub-and-spoke freight station, and solve it using a non-linear programming system. Finally, a numerical example is given to demonstrate the application of the proposed model. It can be shown that the solution to the proposed non-linear model.
Optimization Model of Freight Train Stations: Extend Hub-and-Spoke System
Third International Conference on Transportation Engineering (ICTE) ; 2011 ; Chengdu, China
ICTE 2011 ; 889-894
2011-07-13
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch