Global intermodal liner shipping network design

Zhiyuan Liu, Qiang Meng, Shuaian Wang and Zhuo Sun

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2014, vol. 61, issue C, 28-39

Abstract: This paper presents a holistic analysis for the network design problem of the intermodal liner shipping system. Existing methods for liner shipping network design mainly deal with port-to-port demand. However, most of the demand has inland origins and/or destinations. Thus, it is necessary to cope with inland origin–destination (OD) pairs involving a change in transport mode from inland transportation to maritime shipping. A method is first proposed to convert inland OD demand to port-to-port demand. Then, a framework for global intermodal liner shipping network design is proposed. Finally, the proposed methodology is applied to and numerically verified by a large-scale network example.

Keywords: Liner shipping system; Network design; Destination-based model; Large-scale applications; Intermodal transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2013.10.006

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