Research Article

Highway Passenger Transport Based Express Parcel Service Network Design: Model and Algorithm

Table 8

Computation results for different heuristics.

HeuristicsNetwork structureService level constraintCapacity constraintPassenger transport frequency constraintTotal service frequencyService numberService paths numberAverage cost per day
Fixed cost Frequency related cost Operations cost Total cost

Carrier’s solutionOD direct reachMetNot consideredNot met2181101103553.025494.0114439.7143486.7
Constrained solutionH/S without stopMostly metConsideredMet116521101679.611652.8114439.7127772.1
Our solutionH/S with stopMetConsideredMet102441101421.29066.4109625.7120113.3