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Resource Balancing in the Design of Hub-and-spoke Network for LTL Logistics |
HU Qing-mi1, HU Zhi-hua1,2 |
1. Logistics Research Center, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China;
2. School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200331, China |
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Abstract To cope with the problem that less-than-truckload (LTL) logistics network design for certain origin-destination (OD) flow demands often fails to utilize the network resources in a balanced manner, the characteristics of OD flow uncertainties and network design difficulties are analyzed, and a mixed integer programming model is devised by considering the OD flow uncertainties based on inventory theory. An example study demonstrates that design of a logistics network with OD flow uncertainties based on optimizing the network operation and construction costs, and the network resources utilization ratio comprehensively has a significant improvement in balancing the utilization degree of network resources compared to only considering minimizing the network operation and construction costs. The result contributes to adjustment of the logistics network structure to improve the balancing utilization degree of network resources for uncertain OD flow demands.
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Received: 07 July 2013
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Fund:Supported by the Graduate Innovation Foundation of Shanghai Maritime University (No.2013ycx003,No.wk2013007);the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No.71101088, No.71171129);the Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(No.10YJC630087, No.20113121120002, No.20123121110004, and No.14YZ100);and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai (No.12ZR1412800, No.11510501900, and No.12510501600) |
Corresponding Authors:
HU Qing-mi, zhhu@shmtu.edu.cn
E-mail: zhhu@shmtu.edu.cn
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