NDLI: Planning the Location of Intermodal Freight Hubs: an Agent Based Approach

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	van Dam, K.H. Lukszo, Z. Ferreira, L. Sirikijpanichkul, A.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft (van Dam, K.H.; Lukszo, Z.)
Abstract	Intermodal freight transportation is defined as a system that carries freight from origin to destination by using two or more transportation modes. In this system, hubs are one of the key elements that function as transferring points of freight between different modes. The location of hubs is one of the most crucial success factors in intermodal freight transportation and needs to be considered very carefully as it has direct and indirect impacts on different stakeholders including investors, policy makers, infrastructure providers, hub operators, hub users, and the community. There have been several attempts to evaluate intermodal freight hub location decisions by using conventional multi-objective evaluation models. Only a few studies take community's benefits into account next to the costs and it is difficult to assess the relationship between system level performance and the prefered solution for individual actors. This paper aims at developing an integral model for the evaluation of road-rail intermodal freight hub location decisions. The model comprises five dominant types of agents namely, hub operators, terminal operators, infrastructure providers, hub users, and communities. An agent based modeling approach is introduced to allow negotiation to happen in order to achieve a global objective. The paper outlines the methodology to be used. It presents a conceptual design and an illustrative case study for an agent based model for the decision making process for planning the location of intermodal freight hubs.
Starting Page	187
Ending Page	192
File Size	1786174
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1424410754
DOI	10.1109/ICNSC.2007.372774
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-04-15
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Road transportation Costs Decision making Control systems Traffic control Air transportation Rails Operations research Process planning Ontologies socio-technical system Agent-Based Model intermodal freight hub ontology decision making
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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