Optimization of transport network in the Basin of Yangtze River with minimization of environmental emission and transport/investment costs

The capacity of the ship-lock at the Three Gorges Dam has become bottleneck of waterway transport and caused serious congestion. In this article, a continual network design model is established to solve the problem with minimizing the transport cost and environmental emission as well as infrastructu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Haiping Shi, Pengfei Xu, Zhongzhen Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-08-01
Series:Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814016660923