
zhong zhen YangNingbo University
zhong zhen Yang
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Economic globalisation has boosted production and consumption, improving living standards but increasing demand for long distance trade transportation and carbon emissions. This paper maps global export cargo turnover as the length of the global supply chain (SCL) and introduces a method to calculate each country's carbon emissions based on consume...
This study explores the optimal subsidy policy to maximize the benefits associated with the suburbanization of university campuses. A transport accessibility index is introduced, and a model is developed to analyze faculty housing relocation, incorporating factors such as transport accessibility, housing price, relocation subsidy, and the influence...
To systematically sort out the research progress in the field of port and shipping operation and management after the global major disaster event, a total of 577 pieces of global major disaster events-related literature in the field of port and shipping management were analyzed by co-word clustering analysis using the knowledge graph analysis softw...
Focusing on bottleneck of express package delivery in rural regions, this study proposes a new potential solution, namely, Collaboration of Delivery and Sale (CDS), which integrates the express package delivery with the offline mobile sales. In order to figure out how to implement the CDS mode, the demand for offline mobile shopping is predicted ba...
This paper addresses the issues of port investment, considering the mutual selection process of the industries planned for transfer and recipient countries with location advantage, along the Maritime Silk Road (MSR). We propose a method for determining the production scale of different industries in each country by analyzing location advantage, the...
Kang Chen Qingyang Lu Xu Xin- [...]
Qi Xu
In the post-COVID-19 epidemic era (PCEE), the supply of empty containers will face stronger uncertainty. Estimating the amount of self-owned and leased empty containers that need to be allocated to each inland freight station in a specific area becomes a critical issue for liner companies in PCEE. However, owing to the high degree of unpredictabili...
To clarify the impact of new transport services on consumers’ shopping behaviors and shopping-related transport emissions, a back-propagation neural network shopping channel choice model is established to estimate the number of times that consumers engage in online and offline shopping. A brick-and-mortar store choice model and travel mode choice m...
The expansion of high-speed railway (HSR) has opened up new freight capacity on traditional railway (TR) lines in China. In order to increase China's railway volume of containers transported to port terminals, this paper estimates the HSR and TR modal splits for passenger transport. Then, the TR capacity used for passengers is calculated via traffi...
The background and contents of the Special Issue (SI) of “Integration and Cooperation in International Transportation” are summarized. The aim of the SI is the attraction and presentation of high-quality papers concerning this topic. “COOPERATION” and “INTEGRATION” are two promising topics of the published 8 papers. The beneficiaries of SI include...
The real-time sharing of information through mobile internet facilitates and increases demand for carpool commuting. In this study, information asymmetries are transformed into psychological costs to passengers and drivers; then, the psychological and other physical costs are integrated into a generalized travel cost. Logit and Nest-logit models ar...
We introduce quaternary and ternary diagrams to analyze temporal-spatial changes in the supply and demand shares of marine products, respectively. Subsequently, we build a marine product supply selection model to calculate the quantities of marine products furnished by supply channels and estimate the demand for marine products in China’s three coa...
This paper addresses a problem in evaluating the impacts of internet-app-based dockless public bicycles and public transport (i-PB&PT) on young people's mode choices considering their choice intentions. A method is proposed, based on the theory of planned behavior and structural equation modeling, to identify changes in the modal split and in trave...
The ship’s routeing is adopted to organise marine traffic flow and reduce the risk of collision between ships in crowded waters. With the expansion of the world’s fleet, ship traffic in shipping bottleneck and chokepoint areas becomes more and more busy and complex creating serious challenges for navigational safety. Therefore, quantitative collisi...
In 2015, China started to shift its port governance from “one city, one port (OCOP)” mode to “one province, one port (OPOP)” mode. This policy reform was carried out with the aim of alleviating cut-throat competition among its ports. In this paper, we seek to verify its effectiveness: First, the similarity of a given port user’s selection between t...
To reveal the unique significant about the role of bay areas in global trade and shipping system, a Bay Area and a non-Bay Area are theoretically abstracted through urban economics methods. Given the assumption that except for port-based transportation all other elements remain constant, we analyze and prove the developmental advantages inherent in...
To assist cruise companies in designing the technic-economic specifications of “fly-cruise” products and attracting international tourists, this paper proposes a model of itinerary planning and dynamic pricing with advanced algorithm. We integrate the Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) to develop a hybrid algorithm to obtain the...
To compete with online e-commerce, traditional retailing is implementing a new retail mode that combines online sales with physical stores, which may change the channel, transport mode and logistics cost of retail commodities from manufacturers to end consumers. In this context, it is necessary for physical retailers to relocate their shopping cent...
Kang Chen Qingyang Lu Xu Xin- [...]
Qi Xu
To meet the fluctuating demand for empty containers at inland freight stations, liner companies often adopt the method of a combination of self-owned and leased empty containers. Therefore, estimating the amount of self-owned and leased empty containers that need to be allocated to each inland freight station in a specific area becomes a critical i...
The coastal intermodal cargo-container joint supply chain is a complicated system with several stakeholders and a few challenging decision-making concerns, such as the laden container acceptance and routing problem, the empty container relocation problem, and the water transportation services pricing problem. Motivated by the abovementioned backgro...
AIS big data mining has widespread application value and it is a hot topic in port and shipping research. In order to eliminate the abnormal or error temporal and spatial AIS data caused by the influence of the environment, equipment and transmission, and ensure the quality of data mining, an AIS rough data processing algorithm using distance distr...
Parcel lockers offer a service for last-mile delivery in urban logistics. To price this service, we identified its values to consignees not at receiving sites and to couriers when delivering parcels to lockers instead of consignees. A travel salesman problem (TSP) model is built to analyze the cost change of last-mile delivery corresponding to the...
For satisfying the growing demand of parking in urban area and relieving traffic congestion in downtown, under the condition of urban subway park-and-ride (P&R), the methods of site selection and scale calculation of parking lots are studied. Selecting Xi'an Rd. business circle in Dalian as study object, both survey and analysis of parking demand w...
As a typical system to reduce costs and improve efficiency, the liner shipping system has an important role in economic globalization. In recent years, with the government’s strengthening of carbon emission control and the popularity of liner alliances, the decision-making problems faced by liner companies have become more complicated. Motivated by...
To optimize the container liner shipping scheme between China and Europe as the possibility of Arctic shipping opens up, the operational behaviors of liner shipping companies are considered and potential shipping scheme are proposed. Fulfilling known port container OD flows, a model is built to optimize the liner shipping network corresponding to e...
The investment environment in port infrastructure appeared fluctuating in recent years, which throw more uncertainties and challenges in port public-private partnership (PPP). Among ports in PPP, Dandong port in China is the most miserable and bankrupted in 2017. In this study, interpretative structural model (ISM) is employed to investigate why th...
This paper reviews the literature on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has the factors that directly influence the transport and logistics. The relevant literature has been collected systematically since the BRI was initiated in 2013. We adopt a content analysis methodology involving a four-step process. It can be found that firstly, more a...
To clarify the role of e-commerce during urbanization, the shopping activities before and after students have relocated to a remote campus are surveyed. Under the assumption that the quality of life (QOL), the total amount of purchased commodities, and the generalized shopping cost remain unchanged, the substitution effects of online shopping on in...
Cruise tourism has developed rapidly in the last ten years in China. However, Chinese cruise tourism is currently encountering bottlenecks because the selling mode of travel agency chartering has become a key element in curbing its development. To solve the problem, cruise companies are trying to adjust their sales strategies to change the previous...
In service industries, such as cruise tourism, intermediaries (agents) are crucial in the initial stages of foreign market penetration and business development. This is particularly important in emerging and protected markets, such this of China a few years back. As the market matures, however, and the consumer becomes savvier, the role of the agen...
Over the past decades, China's direct investment in Africa expanded significantly and became more diversified. The increased involvement of Chinese interests in Africa has intensified the debate on the benefits, modes and risks linked to these investments. Chinese state-owned companies have directed large amounts of expertise and resources to Afric...
To optimize the investment scheme of a port in a multiport region, it is necessary to analyze users' port choice habits and the feedback relationship between users' use experience and their port choice behaviors. This paper proposes a method to analyze the process of dynamic change in users' port choices after a specific port invests to enhance its...
A new working mode of overloaded traffic control for rural highways is presented, and a location-routing model is built to optimize the check base distribution and the control vehicles’ routing schemes. Then, for the location-routing model with a large set of location alternatives and an unknown settable number of check bases, a multiple ant colony...
This paper develops a programme model with equilibrium constraints for decision-making regarding a multihub port location in West Africa. To consider the high security risks associated with inland areas of West Africa and the poor reliability of inland transport systems, this model takes the lowest regional generalised transport cost as the optimis...
Since its inception in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a focal issue in international transportation and global logistics because infrastructure development and economic and transport corridors have been influencing connectivity among countries along the Belt and Road. This paper aims to conduct a literature review on logist...
This paper attempted to analyze the factors influencing the existence and configuration of wave-system structures of large network airlines at hub airports based on the statistical data of daily flight schedules. A bootstrapped binary logistic regression model was used to analyze the relationship between wave-system structure and its influential fa...
Although an increase in the number of dockless shared-bicycle services improves convenience for users, the disorderly parking of bicycles has seriously invaded public space in many cities. To avoid having bicycles occupying public space and to optimize bicycle density, a questionnaire survey is administered to explore the relationship between bicyc...
A coastal container multimodal transportation system has two modes of transportation, i.e., land and water. Due to economies of scale, the latter has become an emerging way to decrease the pollution of the system. This paper establishes a programming model to improve the system's sustainable transportation policy. The model aims to minimize the car...
The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is the most developed area in China attracting global attention. Noting that the concentration ratio (CR(n)), Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) (also including Gini coefficient and Aitchison distance) and shift-share analysis (SSA) are only allowed to describe the concentration, inequality and competition of a multi-por...
In order to systematically analyze and summarize the research status and development trend of shipping management, the co-word cluster analysis of shipping management based on the 628 literatures from WOS Database and CNKI Database was carried out by knowledge map analysis software VOSviewer,and three research hotspots were obtained, including ship...
This paper focuses on the export container cargos from Chongqing to Europe in the outbound transport network, considering the two modes of maritime transport and the CSERE (Chongqing-Sinkiang-Europe Railway Express). It has three aims: first, to propose a method to calculate the international transport accessibility with the help of indicators of t...
Since the Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative was launched in 2013, China’s investment in ports across the globe has promoted maritime connectivity, driven performance in shipping, and strengthened its commercial maritime power. With the objective of quantitatively evaluating a country’s commercial maritime power, we develop an evaluation system based o...
Due to the lack of adjustment index systems for taxi fleet sizes in China, this paper used the taxi operating datasets from Ningbo City and established a regression tree model to consider the endogenous indicators that affect taxi fleet sizes. Then, a dynamic adjustment mechanism of taxi fleet sizes was proposed by combining the exogenous and endog...
Purpose
This paper aims to understand the trade transportation situation between China and Koreas, and to explore the possibility of establishing the surface transportation corridor between China and Koreas in the future. Moreover, the paper also intends to find out the mode choice behaviors of shippers, which can be used to analyze the substitute...
Shared parking is not commonly applied in residential areas. The reason is that parking suppliers and managers believe that there are many uncertainties and conflicts in obtaining sharing benefits and taking sharing risks. To increase their acceptance of shared parking in residential areas, risk and benefit factors were identified by an influential...
Coastal short-term cruise products are matched with Chinese consumer demand characteristics. Launching coastal short-term cruise products can help local Chinese cruise companies change the monopoly status of foreign cruise companies in China. This paper builds a two-stage optimization model to provide a decision-making method for local Chinese crui...
This paper aims to develop a two-layer emergency logistics system with a single depot and multiple demand sites for wildfire suppression and disaster relief. For the first layer, a fire propagation model is first built using both the flame-igniting attributes of wildfires and the factors affecting wildfire propagation and patterns. Second, based on...
In order to adapt to the passenger demand after urban subway new line operation, and improve the operational efficiency of the bus lines along subway, the adjustment method of bus lines is studied. Taking the HuangHe Rd. segment with Dalian Metro Line 2 as the research object, the passenger volumes of every main traffic mode before and after subway...
This study estimated energy consumption efficiency (ECE) and the additional cost involved in achieving maximum ECE. By investigating the economic precondition for bridging the energy efficiency gap, a behavioral change at the micro level among residents of Kumamoto is analyzed. A utility-based simulation model is used to estimate that 37,276 Kcal i...
This paper integrates empty container reposition with container shipping network design considering the container life stages. A mixed-integer linear programming model is built to determine the liner shipping network, the initial launch ports of new containers, the ports for scrapping obsolete containers, the empty container reposition scheme and t...
Currently, the best container ship size in a service is determined mainly by the liner operator, considering only the economies of scale of ships. Its external diseconomies to the ports and shippers are usually not considered in the decision-making process, which may reduce the overall efficiency and lead to global nonoptimality. This study incorpo...
In the context of industry transfer, we study the problems of port investment and port pricing for sites where manufacturing plants may be relocated. We propose an optimization method that considers mutual feedback between port investment and international industry transfer, and find the equilibrium for industry transfer and port supply. In equilib...
We introduce a novel dimension to the fleet renewal decisions of a shipping company, taking into account the effects of ship scrapping subsidies. The fleet renewal behavior of a company is analyzed with focus on early scrapping decisions prompted by the subsidy. We present a fleet renewal decision model which maximizes firm profit given market dema...
A super network is mathematically represented, consisting of ocean-, road-, rail-, and inland waterways transport, including a major transshipment facility. The network is used to construct a programming model, with the objective of determining the location of dry ports and hub river ports; the travel paths of containers; and the shipping network f...
The development of airport alliances has undergone hardships, although airport alliances have emerged simultaneously with other airline alliances in an attempt to improve competitiveness. Technology spillover is a major benefit of airport alliances, but the effects of such spillover are not as obvious as might be expected. This paper proposes a thr...
The relationship between shipping accessibility and maritime transport demand is studied based on the relationship between production and consumption and stochastic frontier analysis. First, the consumption market of the products produced in a region is classified into the local market, non-local domestic market and foreign market. Then, to obtain...
Truck appointment has proved to be an efficient tool in reducing congestion at container terminals. To make a reasonable appointment quota plan, it is necessary to take terminal operations into consideration. We develop a novel approach (model) for optimizing a truck appointment system with the objective of decreasing external trucks’ waiting times...
The single pricing approach fails to reflect different demand changes in response to its cargo space prices at different sales periods. This might be an obstacle to maximize the cargo space revenue of air freight carriers. This paper conducts the empirical analysis on pricing strategies in the spot market for two competitive air freight transport c...
In the context of the city government as the landowner, a bus operator-dominant mode (BDM) of bus depot construction is proposed to control land financial loss and cover the deadhead trip costs between the bus depots and the bus terminal stops. An integer programming model is built on the basis of bus parking behavior, transit business behavior, ho...
Port integration in a region with multiport gateways (R-MPG) is studied in the case when port supply surpasses shipping demand. First, the feasible paths for ports with overcapacity to transform and upgrade their industry are analyzed. Second, a method for determining the optimal scale of port clusters is put forth based on a continuous approximati...
To improve the space utilization and traffic capacity of a signalized junction, this paper proposes a dynamic reversible lane assignment method for approaches of signalized junctions that considers the game equilibrium between road users and traffic controllers. To theoretically analyze the behaviors of the players involved in the leader-follower s...
A Synchronous Optimization for Multiship Shuttle Tanker Fleet Design and Scheduling is solved in the context of development of floating production storage and offloading device (FPSO). In this paper, the shuttle tanker fleet scheduling problem is considered as a vehicle routing problem with hard time window constraints. A mixed integer programming...
To reduce the rehandling of inbound containers given partial truck arrival information, a method of simultaneously optimizing the pickup sequence and the container rehandling strategy is proposed. A rehandling model that considers adjustments to the container pickup sequence within each group is developed to minimize the total number of rehandles....
Electric vehicle plays an important role in alleviating the pressure of energy and environmental pollution. Inconvenient charging is one of the main reasons for restricting the development of electric vehicles. To reasonably locate the electric vehicle charging stations, this paper presents a location method of electric vehicle charge station based...
To increase the land utility and efficiency in an airport economic zone (AEZ) and to manage the corresponding transport demands, we propose a method to determine the structure and scale of the basic airport industry cluster based on the airport scale and its relationships to industries. The correlation coefficients between industries are calculated...
This paper aims to explore the roles and status of China Railway Express (CR Express) in Sino-Euro as an independent trans-continent trade transportation mode. The transportation time between China and Europe was divided into three parts, namely transit time, loading and unloading time and waiting time, and the transportation cost was separated int...
The ‘first come first served’ (FCFS) strategy usually adopted by air express companies does not consider delivery time tolerances and induces underuse of some facilities. This study relaxes the time tolerances and tackles the issue of parcel deliveries and transport network design for an express delivery company. In other words, it determines simul...
The location behaviors of manufacturing industries are analyzed in the context of the economic globalization, and a programming model that integrates the flow-capturing location model with the traffic assignment model is built to optimize the location of manufacturing industries based on the world-wide transport multi-mode network. The flow-capturi...
In this paper, a number of ports in Hong Kong and mainland China are grouped and the concentration ratio and Herfindahl-Hirschman index of the container throughputs are calculated to analyze the changes in the port and shipping industry in Hong Kong. By tracing the trajectory of the barycenter of the standard deviation ellipse of the annual contain...
The current port governance system in China has produced the outstanding pattern of “one port – one city” which raises the port-cities’ enthusiasm in developing their local ports but leads to the serious problem of duplication of similar port projects meanwhile. Consequently, an internecine situation where ports compete with each other fiercely to...
This paper aims to optimize the locations of manufacturing industries in the context of economic globalization by proposing a bi-level programming model which integrates the location optimization model with the traffic assignment model. In the model, the transport network is divided into the subnetworks of raw materials and products respectively. T...
This paper addresses a port cluster problem that considers industry transfer and the capacity constraints along the Maritime Silk Road (MSR). A method is proposed based on hub and spoke network model and spatial competition model to determine the equilibrium port supply and manufacturing scale along the MSR. The model is simplified into a nonlinear...
This study identifies the trends of manufacturing concentration along the Maritime Silk Road (MSR) using GDP and industry value added (% of GDP), as well as survey data on the origins of individuals' daily wares in three developed countries. Based on the location quotient and industry life cycle theories, this study selects 20 MSR countries and ide...
A multidepot VRP is solved in the context of total urban traffic equilibrium. Under the total traffic equilibrium, the multidepot VRP is changed to GDAP (the problem of Grouping Customers + Estimating OD Traffic + Assigning traffic) and bilevel programming is used to model the problem, where the upper model determines the customers that each truck...
Express coach (EC) lost a considerable share of passengers after high-speed rail (HSR) was implemented. This paper proposes a door-to-door operation mode for the EC system and builds a model to design an EC trip-end network in the origin city with the aim of maximizing the EC’s daily operating profit. A case study is undertaken, and the results sho...
The port investment equilibria in a multi-port region in China are analysed. We present two models corresponding to two scenarios: port competition when port companies invest in port capacity for profit and port competition when port cities invest in port capacity for local GDP. It is verified that the profit-oriented investment in a multi-port reg...
For dealing with the demand of large quantity, small parcel, high batch frequency, and high timeliness of urban express distribution, the distribution mode by cooperatively using buses and private trucks was proposed, and an optimization model aimed at minimizing the total cost of express distribution was built. The transport network of expresses b...
Civil Aviation Administration controls flights distribution on different segments in China. Based on this fact, this paper tends to optimize distribution of air cargo transportation network by adjusting cargo aircraft flights. The purpose is to effectively allocate air cargo transportation resource and provides decision support for macro-control po...
Double cycling is an efficient tool to increase the efficiency of quay crane (QC) in container terminals. In this paper, an optimization model for double cycling is developed to optimize the operation sequence of multiple QCs. The objective is to minimize the makespan of the ship handling operation considering the ship balance constraint. To solve...
In order to encourage the public to travel by the park-and-ride and metro mode as much as possible, and to relieve the traffic congestion in urban center area, the regional differential parking pricing strategy is studied. The investigations of parking charge, parking source, P&R intention and the passenger volumes of metro, bus and car are conduct...
The foreign trade transport accessibility (FTTA) of Mainland China to overseas regions is studied in terms of the shipping connectivity and achievable market scales. First, the concept of FTTA is defined. Second, the path choice behavior of shippers is analyzed, and a method to measure FTTA is proposed. Last, with 357 cities in Mainland China as th...
The paper attempts to propose an optimal air ticket pricing model during the booking horizon by taking into account passengers’ purchasing behavior of air tickets. A Markov decision process incorporating a nested logit consumer response model is established to modeling the dynamic pricing process. The proposed model is estimated and applied using t...