Modelling transport modes performance and external transaction costs

Ligang Cui, Maozeng Xu, Desheng Dash Wu and Min Wu

International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 2011, vol. 10, issue 1, 60-68

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.

Keywords: intermodal transportation; external transaction costs; 0-1 mixed integer programming; hybrid GAs; genetic algorithms; environmental impact; sustainable development; sustainable transport; sustainability; performance evaluation; transport modes; modelling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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