Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1143925 Systems Engineering Procedia 2012 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

Many modern service systems rely on a network of hub facilities to help concentrate flows of freight or passengers to exploit the economies of scale in transportation. Whereas,the possible defect that bypass cost caused by hub or intermedia seem unvoided. This paper employs a novel optimal hub-and-spoke network based decision approach which unite “bypass cost” and “congestion effect” effectively,presents a algorithm in time effect compared with tradional algorithm, sets up a computational work which performed on a personal computer with data for postal operations in Sydney,Australia and draw a conclusion that the approach presented in this paper are much better in time than traditional way.

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