Track: Masters Thesis Competition

Abstract

Hub facility location in this study is related with driving the traffic from origin to destination of the railway logistics transportation by finding optimal hub facilities and allocating demand node to hubs. The objective of this research is to determine the locations of hubs to allocate non-hub nodes to hubs with minimizing total cost. Total cost includes transportation costs from origin to destination and fixed costs for new hub investments. An approach to the capacitated multiple allocation hub location problem is presented and an integer linear programming model is developed to find the solution of this problem. Computational analysis is conducted in order to observe the resulting hub networks. The final results of this research are the optimal locations for railway logistics transportation transfer terminals attached in a hub-and-spoke network.