Research on the Optimization of Integrated Schedule and Transport Plan of E-Commerce Goods

Abstract

Based on the line-haul freight transport of a certain e-commerce company, this paper studies the cargo scheduling schemes between different supply centres and demand centres with different transport modes. Taking the minimum transport cost as the objective function, time window and supply-demand balance as constraints, considering the various types of goods, this paper establishes the decision-making optimization model for e-commerce goods line-haul transportation, and calculates the cargo scheduling schemes in different scenarios by LINGO 18.0. The paper finds out that highway is still the main mode of transporting e-commerce goods at present; with the continuous improvement of high-speed rail freight transportation, railway shows great potentials to carry e-commerce goods; at the same time, air transport is irreplaceable for transporting time-sensitive products and high value-added products.