Route optimization of container multi-modal transportation based on reliability under the three-dimensional network

Abstract

To deal with the uncertainty of container multi-modal transport, a container multi-modal transport route optimization model based on the reliability is proposed. To deal with the problem that network has multiplicity and that node has weights in multi-modal transport, the paper pre-processes the multi-modal transport network to three-dimensional graph based on the transport mode, and uses the improved Dijkstra algorithm to get the K-th shortest path set which take transport time and transport cost as the main target. On this basis, we find out the reliability of the common paths, and figure out the path which has higher reliability. The simulation experiments take sea routes of China to Australia as the main route, prove the model and method can improve the reliability of transport, to a certain extent, can also reduce the loss of the consignor.