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- Title
EVIDENTIAL REASONING-BASED AIRLINE NETWORK DESIGN FOR LONG-HAUL TRANSPORTATION IN EXPRESS DELIVERY.
- Authors
Fei Gao; Qilan Zhao
- Abstract
In express delivery, air couriers have been used extensively for transporting express freight due to its high efficiency and security, which are the most important considerations of the customers. The large volume of cargo forces the express company to build its own airline networks, aiming at improving the efficiency of delivery and reducing the transport cost. The conventional optimal solutions are very complex for use in designing networks with transferring hubs, and, in addition, the port conditions, including the volume of rainfall, the volume of railway transportation, average throughput, and hardware infrastructure, cannot be considered fully. In this paper, we formulate the express airline network design problem as an evidential reasoning- based evaluation process with multi-dimensional data. We used the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory to provide a flexible scheme to solve the evaluation task, and we proposed an evidential reasoning process specific for designing an express network to determine the best choice of the transferring hub. The proposed approach was applied in the design of the airline network for the ShunFeng express company, and the case study demonstrated that the proposed scheme can obtain a reasonable transport network with higher efficiency and lower cost.
- Subjects
AIRLINE industry; REASONING; AIR courier service; DEMPSTER-Shafer theory; TRAVEL costs
- Publication
Technical Gazette / Tehnički Vjesnik, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 5, p1551
- ISSN
1330-3651
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17559/TV-20170306133621