Research on Hub-and-Spoke Transportation Network of China Railway Express

Table 15

Relationship between non-hub and hub when using function .

Hub node	Allocation of non-hub nodes	Cost (thousand US dollars)	Time (days)
		31525.3	1812

Hub node layout: {Chongqing|Chongqing, Chengdu}, {Zhengzhou|Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Hefei, Yiwu, Xi’an, Suzhou}, {Shenyang|Shenyang, Yingkou}, {Hamburg|Hamburg, Duisburg, Tilburg}, {Malaszewicze|Malaszewicze, Warsaw, Lodz, Madrid, Budapest}, {Moscow|Moscow, Minsk}.