Station Placement for Sustainable Urban Metro Freight Systems Using Complex Network Theory

Shukang Zheng (), Hanpei Yang, Huan Hu, Chun Liu, Yang Shen and Changjiang Zheng
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Shukang Zheng: College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
Hanpei Yang: College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
Huan Hu: College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
Chun Liu: College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
Yang Shen: College of Computer and Information Technology Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Changjiang Zheng: College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: To solve the problem of urban freight demand and build an efficient, practical, intelligent, green, and sustainable new logistics system, this paper considers the application of the subway network to urban freight transportation and studies the location problem of subway transit stations in the urban freight network. According to the differences between different subway stations, the nodal degree, medial centrality, proximity centrality, and regional accessibility are proposed as the evaluation indexes, and the improved fuzzy analytic hierarchy method and entropy weight method are used to calculate the index weight. The TOPSIS evaluation method is used to evaluate the importance of each subway station, and the importance evaluation model of subway stations is constructed. Combined with the distribution location and transportation demand of urban express delivery outlets, a two-tier planning model for the location of subway transfer stations was constructed with total cost and customer satisfaction as the objective functions, and the case studies were carried out by taking Jiangning District, Lishui District, and Gaochun District of Nanjing as the research objects. The results show that Hohai University Focheng West Road, Zhengfang Middle Road, Qunli, and Gaochun can be transformed into subway transfer stations and used as transshipment centers of the urban cargo transportation network. Compared with the original ground transportation network, 52.87% of the ground transportation distance in the optimized transportation network is replaced by subway transportation, and the total cost of logistics transportation is reduced by 8.73%, which verifies the feasibility of subway for urban cargo transportation, reduces logistics transportation costs, and relieves the pressure of ground transportation, which is of great significance for the sustainable development of urban logistics.

Keywords: transportation planning and management; green logistics; urban freight network; subway; node siting; complex network theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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