2017 年 12 巻 p. 991-1004
It has been noted that highway systems are increasingly threatened by natural disasters in Taiwan, especially disrupted by typhoons and earthquakes. In order to improve the utilization of existing infrastructure and increase system resiliency, a truck-rail-truck intermodal logistics dispatching support system is developed for alleviating highway disruptions. The study starts from a typical intermodal freight timed-transfer problem and then considers multiple schedule disturbances occurred at terminals operating in time-dependent, stochastic and dynamic environments. The proposed dispatching decision support system can assist terminal operators determining whether each ready outbound train should be dispatched immediately or held waiting for some late incoming trucks with connecting freight, while considering system reliability under multiple uncertainties occurred within the studied networks.
