Abstract
Growing competition in the world enforces the need for an efficient design of transportation networks. Furthermore, a competitive transportation network should also be eco-friendly. As road transportation is responsible for the largest quantities of CO2 emissions, Intermodal Transportation (IT) might be a potential alternative. From this perspective, intermodal terminals location is a cornerstone for building a sustainable transportation network. The purpose of this paper is to study and efficiently solve the Intermodal Terminal Location Problem on incomplete networks. We model this problem as a mixed integer linear program and develop a simulated annealing algorithm to tackle medium and large instances. The computational results show that the obtained solutions using simulated annealing are competitive and close to the exact solutions found by CPLEX solver for small and medium instances. The same developed algorithm outperforms the best found solutions from the literature using heuristics for larger instances.
Highlights
The growth in container-related activities over the last decades is having a remarkable impact on transportation demand
We propose a generalization of a well-known problem in the literature, namely the Intermodal Terminal Location Problem (ITLP) by introducing the incomplete version of the problem relaxing the completeness of the inter-terminal network
The current paper contributes to this knowledge area by optimizing the location of intermodal terminals
Summary
The growth in container-related activities over the last decades is having a remarkable impact on transportation demand. Worldwide economic growth has led to an increasing growth of domestic and international streams of goods and services. Handling these flows of goods from production to transportation and storage induce major environmental concerns. In many countries, government, companies and Non-Government Organizations (NGO) are more and more inclined to purchase green products. They are increasingly urged to incorporate green policy throughout their decision-making process. It is well known that Intermodal Transportation (IT) is a cornerstone for achieving sustainable development through modal shift from road to eco-friendly modes.
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