Houjun Lu
College of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China
Huiqiang Zhen
College of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China
Youfang Huang
Engineering Research Center of Container Supply Chain Technology, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China
Yuwei Zhao
Engineering Research Center of Container Supply Chain Technology, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China
ABSTRACT
The collecting and distributing of container highway transportation is the head and the tail of main transport lines. To minimize the unit cost and the complexity of transportation schedules, this paper addresses the Collection Center Location Planning Problem (CCLPP) concerned with how many Collection Centers (CCs) should be set up and where CCs locate at and which area a CC provides the service of supplies collection for. Followed by the essential CCLPP workflow, we introduce a mixed-integer mathematic model to represent the CCLPP. Afterwards, the performances of the traditional algorithms applied for the large scale mix-integer model with lots of decision variables and constraints are not so good, thus we have extensively investigated an improved algorithm to find an approximate solution for CCLPP. The chromosome is designed with a mixed encoding strategy and sub-chromosomes are proposed to represent the location and the service area respectively and determine the appropriate value ranges of parameters. From numerical experiments for an actual retailer, the approach was used for illustrating the CCLPP model and the improved algorithm. The results show that the solution included the total number of CCs and the locations and the service areas will minimize the transportation cost of this company.
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Houjun Lu, Huiqiang Zhen, Youfang Huang and Yuwei Zhao, 2013. Study on the Location Planning Approach of Outbound Collection Centers. Information Technology Journal, 12: 8181-8185.
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2013.8181.8185
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=itj.2013.8181.8185
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2013.8181.8185
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=itj.2013.8181.8185
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