A Two-Stage Model of Vehicle Routing and Transport Service Pricing with Backhauls

摘要：

This paper focuses on the combined optimization problems of vehicle routing and transport service pricing with backhauls. Transport pricing is very much significant for a logistics company to acquire business share in China’s fiercely competitive transportation and logistics service market. However, the pricing is closely associated with the route pattern and the profit expectations of backhauls. The vehicle in linehaul usually transports goods directly to the desired places and thus makes extra profit in backhauls. This paper discusses a two-stage model which combines vehicle routing and transport pricing. With a case study, a solving process with modified genetic algorithm is given, along with the setting of bottom transport price. The research outcome of this paper is expected to provide a decision support for logistics companies in vehicle routing and transport pricing.

作者: Junmin Yi Yuanyuan Dong Ting Shi Jing Zhou

作者单位: Nanjing University, 210093, China School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University, 210093, China Nanjing University, 210093

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2007年IEEE灰色系统与智能服务国际会议(2007 IEEE International Conference on Grey Systems and Intelligent Services)

会议地点: 南京

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2007-11-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）