Freight transport network design using particle swarm optimisation in supply chain–transport supernetwork equilibrium

Tadashi Yamada and Zukhruf Febri

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2015, vol. 75, issue C, 164-187

Abstract: This paper presents a discrete network design problem for optimally designing freight transport network in terms of the efficiency of supply chain. Modelling is undertaken within the framework of mathematical programmes with equilibrium constraints, which first incorporates both supply chain and transport networks explicitly. The upper level determines the best set of actions for transport network improvement, while the lower-level decision is based on a supply chain–multimodal transport supernetwork equilibrium. New variants of particle swarm optimisation are developed to approximately solve the upper level. Numerical tests reveal their superior performance and the effective freight transport-related actions.

Keywords: Discrete network design problem; Multimodal transport network; Supply chain network; Mathematical programmes with equilibrium constraints; Discrete binary particle swarm optimisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2015.01.001

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