Analysis on the location of green logistics park based on heuristic algorithm

• Main Authors: Yingjun Xu, Hongfei Jia, Yikun Zhang, Guodong Tian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-05-01
• Series: Advances in Mechanical Engineering
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814018774635

The location problem of logistics park is the basis of logistics network planning. The establishment of conventional logistics park location planning model requires consideration of multiple factors, including position relationships between site selection points and demand points, economic cost, service efficiency, and consumer satisfaction. “Green development concept” gradually leads the trend of social and economic development in the contemporary world. The green logistics park emerges as the requirement of era. There are obvious differences between the site selection rules and the location demand of the green logistics park with the conventional logistics park. On the basis of analyzing the evaluation indexes of green logistics park and the factors affecting the site selection, this article builds a single-objective decision model based on the comprehensive cost. The model sets transportation cost and environment cost as the objective function. In addition, according to the constraints of location and quantity of the proposed logistics park, the model is divided into four parts to refine, and the solving process based on hybrid particle algorithm and alternate location allocation heuristic algorithm is given. The model and algorithm are feasible by analyzing the numerical example. Finally, the green logistics park site selection scheme is designed. The location model that considers the single comprehensive cost target provides a simple and feasible decision method for the green logistics park location.