MIP models and a hybrid method for the capacitated air-cargo network planning and scheduling problems

Canrong Zhang, Fanrui Xie, Kun Huang, Tao Wu and Zhe Liang

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2017, vol. 103, issue C, 158-173

Abstract: This paper examines hub location and plane assignment problems for the air-cargo delivery service. Two mixed integer programming models are constructed. Their difference lies in the way they control the number of visiting hubs for serving each O-D pair. Due to the NP-hardness of the problem, a two-stage hybrid algorithm is developed to solve large-scale instances. The first stage settles partial critical variables by heuristics and the second stage settles the rest of variables by a commercial solver. Based on the real-life data, numerical experiments are conducted to test the performance of the models and algorithm.

Keywords: Air-cargo delivery; Hub-and-spoke; Hub location; Aircraft assignment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2017.05.003

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