具有连续工班数量折扣的集卡车队外包决策问题

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Abstract To cope with the capacity limitations of enterprise's own transport fleet for container transport and the increasing competitive pressure, considering the operating costs and the demand uncertainty, an outsourcing decision-making problem for truck fleet with quantity discounts for continuous working shifts is presented. From the perspective of competition and social-effects analysis, we suggest an extended vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) vehicle scheduling model. The model minimizes costs and provides an evaluation system with minimal mileage and carbon emissions. By adjusting quantity-discount rules and task time windows, our model can be used to provide outsourcing solutions for different combinations of continuous working shifts. We also discuss the influence of other parameter settings on the decision schemes. Finally, we verify both the model and the algorithm using a simulation experiment. The experimental results show that using quantity discounts for fleet outsourcing decisions for different combinations of continuous working shifts improves both vehicle utilization and social benefits. We also highlight new research opportunities based on these results.

Key words： transport economics vehicle scheduling continuous working shifts outsourcing decision quantity discount

Received: 21 December 2013

Fund:Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO.71101088, No.71171129);the National Social Science Foundation of China (No.11&ZD169);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.2011M500077);the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China (No.20113121120002);and the Innovation Project Fund of Graduate Student of Shanghai Maritime University (No.wk2012039)

Corresponding Authors: LI Shu-qin, llishuqin@163.com E-mail: llishuqin@163.com

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LI Shu-qin,YANG Bin,HU Zhi-hua, et al. Outsourcing Decisions for Truck Fleets with Quantity Discounts for Continuous Working Shifts[J]. Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development, 2014, 8(3): 96-103.

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