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Vol.6 , No. 1, Publication Date: Jun. 25, 2019, Page: 13-22
, which also increased the operating costs of shipping companies. This paper comprehensively considers the factors of liner fuel consumption and emission control area, and optimizes the liner route. By using the space-time network framework, a three-dimensional network model of "space-time-speed" (STS) is constructed by introducing the velocity dimension. The speed is discretized with a reasonable step size, and a 0-1 integer programming model that minimizes operating costs is established. In addition, in the context of the emission control area, it is assumed that there are three alternative navigation options between any two ports in a route. Based on the space-time network model framework, the liner route selection and sailing speed are jointly optimized. In the empirical part, four routes provided by COSCO was selected to construct different ECA scenario cases for comparative analysis. The results show that the STS three-dimensional spatio-temporal network model framework constructed in this paper can effectively solve the liner route optimization problem and describe the liner transportation schedule in more detail.&picture=http://www.aascit.org/aascit/decorators/img/journal/912.jpg)
| [1] | Feng Pengjun, College of Transport & Communications, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China. |
In container liner shipping, fuel consumption directly related to speed brings huge operating costs to shipping companies. At the same time, due to the increasing awareness of environmental protection, ports in various countries have proposed port emission control areas (ECA), which also increased the operating costs of shipping companies. This paper comprehensively considers the factors of liner fuel consumption and emission control area, and optimizes the liner route. By using the space-time network framework, a three-dimensional network model of "space-time-speed" (STS) is constructed by introducing the velocity dimension. The speed is discretized with a reasonable step size, and a 0-1 integer programming model that minimizes operating costs is established. In addition, in the context of the emission control area, it is assumed that there are three alternative navigation options between any two ports in a route. Based on the space-time network model framework, the liner route selection and sailing speed are jointly optimized. In the empirical part, four routes provided by COSCO was selected to construct different ECA scenario cases for comparative analysis. The results show that the STS three-dimensional spatio-temporal network model framework constructed in this paper can effectively solve the liner route optimization problem and describe the liner transportation schedule in more detail.
Keywords
Waterway Transportation, Liner Route Optimization, Space-Time-Speed Network Model, Emission Control Area
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