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The facility layout problem in a logistics park incorporates a rational placement of interacting functional areas to efficiently and effectively organize, manage, and ship goods. Different from the conventional research that generally assumed that the target areas were rectangular, the authors propose a novel set partitioning model on facility layout problem in non-rectangular logistics parks based on the raster data structure. To obtain the actual haul route and distance between functional areas, vectorization is introduced to extract the topological relationship from the raster layout diagrams. Furthermore, combining with the slicing tree structure, a variable neighborhood search algorithm is developed. Finally, applying the method to planning a logistics park, the authors derive several competitive layout schemes. The results verify the feasibility of the model and algorithm.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT050 Standing Committee on Intermodal Freight Terminal Design and Operations.

01618707

17-03948

English

15p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Algorithms; Haul distance; Intermodal facilities; Layout; Location; Logistics; Vector analysis

Logistics parks

Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-03948

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 11:30AM