Modelling transport modes performance and external transaction costs. (1st January 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cui, Ligang; Xu, Maozeng; Wu, Desheng Dash; Wu, Min
• Is Part Of: International journal of information technology and management. Volume 10:Number 1(2011)
• Page Start: 60
• Page End: 68
• Publication Date: 2011-01-01
• Subjects: intermodal transport -- external transaction cost -- 0–1 mixed integer programming -- hybrid genetic algorithm; Management information systems -- Periodicals; Information technology -- Periodicals; Management -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 658.403805
• DOI: 10.1504/IJITM.2011.037762
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-4111

Abstract

Governments in various countries have put much attention to environmental impact factors on transportation and transportation sustainable development. Transport modes performance evaluation is an important topic of that aspect. In this paper, with time window, transport capacity constraints and especially external transaction costs considered, a 0–1 mixed integer programming model is developed to solve the problem of transport modes selection for defined staging transportation networks. A hybrid genetic algorithm is adopted to find the numerical solution of the model. A case study is presented to demonstrate how the developed model can be used to solve practical problems.