Technical gazette, Vol. 24 No. 5, 2017.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.17559/TV-20170306133621
Evidential reasoning-based airline network design for long-haul transportation in express delivery
Fei Gao
orcid.org/0000-0003-4754-3160
; Institution School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University Siyuan East Building, Haidian District, Beijing, 100044, China
Qilan Zhao
; Institution School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University Siyuan East Building, Haidian District, Beijing, 100044, China
Abstract
In express delivery, air couriers have been used extensively for transporting express freight due to its high efficiency and security, which are the most important considerations of the customers. The large volume of cargo forces the express company to build its own airline networks, aiming at improving the efficiency of delivery and reducing the transport cost. The conventional optimal solutions are very complex for use in designing networks with transferring hubs, and, in addition, the port conditions, including the volume of rainfall, the volume of railway transportation, average throughput, and hardware infrastructure, cannot be considered fully. In this paper, we formulate the express airline network design problem as an evidential reasoning-based evaluation process with multi-dimensional data. We used the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory to provide a flexible scheme to solve the evaluation task, and we proposed an evidential reasoning process specific for designing an express network to determine the best choice of the transferring hub. The proposed approach was applied in the design of the airline network for the ShunFeng express company, and the case study demonstrated that the proposed scheme can obtain a reasonable transport network with higher efficiency and lower cost.
Keywords
air freight; evidential reasoning; express transport; network design
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Publication date:
25.10.2017.
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