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Trans. Planning Journal
| Title | Application of Hub Location and Allocation Models in Route Planning for Container Liner Services |
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| Author | Shiou-Yu Chen, Hua-An Lu and Rong-Jyun Jhang |
| Summary | Liner shipping companies usually conducted an appropriate systematic analysis method in order to provide a wide range of route service. This study applied a hub location and allocation model to route planning of liner shipping companies. In considering the characteristics of deep-sea going service, this study proposes a mixed integer programming model with bi-directional single allocation. The proposed model aims to minimize total delivery cost, comprise transportation costs by mother ship, transportation and stevedoring costs in feedering, which can reflect the economies of scale on arcs without employing the discount coefficient. Through tested the proposed model with simple example, this study identified factors that may affect the choice of port to call, including the number of mother ship calls, quantities of delivered containers, transshipment discount rate of stevedoring, charter hires and bunker costs of ship etc. Finally, optimized software packages OPL was used to verify the real data from one top twenty liner shipping company. |
| Vol. | 44 |
| No. | 3 |
| Page | 243 |
| Year | 2015 |
| Month | 9 |
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