Journal
JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
Volume 52, Issue 11, Pages 1215-1224Publisher
PALGRAVE PUBLISHERS LTD
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601205
Keywords
road transport; networks and graphs; logistics; distribution
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The pure hub-and-spoke network is an efficient network structure for time-definite freight delivery common carriers. Centres perform pickup and delivery functions, while hubs consolidate partial loads. This substantially reduces the transportation costs with only a small increase in the handling cost. In Taiwan, as well as in the US, carriers run their delivery operations once a day. As a result, the feeder fleet is under-utilized. This research studied the impact of multiple frequency delivery operations on the feeder fleet size. We formulated line-haul operations planning for multiple frequency delivery operations as an integer programme, We developed an a-optimal implicit enumeration algorithm and used two small networks from the third largest carrier in Taiwan for numerical testing. The results demonstrated a smaller feeder fleet size compared with the single frequency delivery operations.
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