Track: Logistics, Transport and Traffic Management

Abstract

Logistic hub facilities work as consolidation /deconsolidation, switching and connecting for flows between origins and destinations demand nodes. They are represented as the linchpin of the supply chain, and are designed as a solution to reducing transportation cost, and diminishing CO2 emissions.The selection of an optimal location of logistic hubs is a multi-criteria decision making problem that involves a set of quantitative and qualitative decision criteria. The aim of this paper is to develop a decision support system using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) that can help to select the most appropriate location of logistic hubs. Hence, various criteria that can effect on the choice of location of logistic hubs are selected from the literature and experts opinions. Seven main perspectives and twenty-one sub-factors are identified and categorized according to PESTEL (Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, Technological, Environment and Legal) model and accessibility factor category.

To the best of our knowledge, this model is introduced to the literature for the first time. The results show that the proposed system is able to provide more accurate location place.

The proposed model is tested with a case study of logistic hubs location in Morocco. The results show that the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) model can be used to explain the evaluation and decision-making procedures of a logistic hub location. The results give greater importance to the aspects considered in the classical theories of industrial location, which are accessibility and economic factors