- Container Shipping Network Optimisation Based on Steering Vector Search Pattern
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- 论文类型： 期刊论文
- 发表时间： 2017-03-01
- 发表刊物： JOURNAL OF NAVIGATION
- 收录刊物： SCIE
- 卷号： 70
- 期号： 2
- 页面范围： 395-410
- ISSN号： 0373-4633
- 关键字： Container shipping; Network optimisation; Steering vector; Max-Min Ant System algorithm
- 摘要： Container shipping is one of the most important transport modes in international trade. For a large-scale container shipping network, an optimisation model is proposed to minimise the total shipping cost of container flow. Considering the directional property of the container shipping process, a steering vector search pattern is incorporated in a Max-Min Ant System (MMAS) solving algorithm, and an orthogonal array method is adopted in parameter settings. In numerical experiments, a traditional ant colony algorithm and an MMAS algorithm based on a steering vector search pattern are used respectively to optimise the network of five node scales. The results show that a steering vector search pattern can speed up the computation process and improve the optimisation effect.
