The transportation of containers is an important part of the modern logistics industry. As a result of unbalance freight volume between different regions, the empty container allocation has already become a very important and valuable research project. Taking into account the limitations of capacity in railway lines and multiple types of containers, this paper treats the railway empty container allocation as a multi-origin, multi-destination, and multi-commodity problem. An optimal model of this problem is formulated. In view of the interact ability in solving the model, a heuristic method is developed. A numeric example indicates that the model is correct and the method is effective.
A Multi-Commodity Model and an Algorithm for the Railway Empty Container Allocation
International Conference of Logistics Engineering and Management (ICLEM) 2010 ; 2010 ; Chengdu, China
ICLEM 2010 ; 2015-2022
2010-09-09
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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