Research Article
Highway Passenger Transport Based Express Parcel Service Network Design: Model and Algorithm
Table 8
Computation results for different heuristics.
| Heuristics | Network structure | Service level constraint | Capacity constraint | Passenger transport frequency constraint | Total service frequency | Service number | Service paths number | Average cost per day | Fixed cost | Frequency related cost | Operations cost | Total cost |
| Carrier’s solution | OD direct reach | Met | Not considered | Not met | 218 | 110 | 110 | 3553.0 | 25494.0 | 114439.7 | 143486.7 | Constrained solution | H/S without stop | Mostly met | Considered | Met | 116 | 52 | 110 | 1679.6 | 11652.8 | 114439.7 | 127772.1 | Our solution | H/S with stop | Met | Considered | Met | 102 | 44 | 110 | 1421.2 | 9066.4 | 109625.7 | 120113.3 |
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