Feasibility analysis of freight-passenger integration using taxis in rural areas by a mixed-integer programming model

Wenhao Feng, Keishi Tanimoto and Madoka Chosokabe

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2023, vol. 87, issue PA

Abstract: Rural areas generally have a small population and making it challenging to establish public transportation services as a commercial business. For this reason, the resulting business environment is such that it is unavoidable to reduce or abolish services if the number of users decreases, and the business sustainability becomes vulnerable. Given this background, one of the strategies for business sustainability is through freight-passenger integration, that is, the provision of both passenger transportation and freight delivery services. In particular, given that the taxi business can flexibly set destinations and travel times, it is highly likely that freight can be delivered in rural areas using taxis.

Keywords: Transportation; Freight-passenger integration; Mixed integer programming; Rural area; Feasibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038012123000393
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:soceps:v:87:y:2023:i:pa:s0038012123000393

DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2023.101539

Access Statistics for this article

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences is currently edited by Barnett R. Parker

More articles in Socio-Economic Planning Sciences from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().