This paper studies the cost control strategy on cash transportation of China's banking industry under the context of the global financial crisis. It analyses the actual work law of the bank cash transportation profoundly and the impact factors at the transportation costs, and constructs the singlematerial vehicle routing optimization model with rigid time constraints. It uses the genetic algori...

In air transportation networks the robustness of a network regarding node and link failures is a key factor for its design. At the same time, travelling passengers usually prefer the itinerary with fewer legs. In this paper the authors propose three design methods, which can maximize the air transportation network robustness and make sure every itinerary within this network have fewer legs than...

The purpose of the paper is to present a step-by-step development of the transportation optimization model with random parameters, network design variables and with pricing. The well-known deterministic linear transportation model with network design 0-1 variables is shortly discussed and it is extended in two separate ways. Firstly, randomness is modeled by so-called here-and-now approach and ...

Most distribution network design models considered to date have focused on minimizing fixed costs of facility location and transportation costs. Measures of customer satisfaction driven by the operational dynamics such as lead times have seldom been considered. We consider the design of an outbound supply chain network considering lead times, location of distribution facilities and choice of tr...

One abstract method for the study of network transportation is proposed in this paper. By interpolating the properties of the edges that constitute network into the two leading parameters of the nodes, this method can abstract the configuration of real-life transportation networks without losing the influence of the distance and the capability of the physical facilities, which are essential par...

With governments worldwide emphasizing environmental protection and the global focus on carbon reduction, battery electric vehicle (BEV) industry has developed rapidly. An urban transportation network with BEVs as main form of will soon become mainstream. Motivated by abovementioned background, a BEV design problem is investigated, model established. The aims to minimize system travel time netw...

Network design problems in transportation and logistics are both complex and largescale—often containing millions, or even billions, of decision variables and tens of thousands of constraints. Finding optimal or near-optimal solutions to large-scale network design problems is challenging, if not impossible. To address this issue, we extend and bring together in a unified setting two complementa...