Modeling the City Distribution System Reliability with Bayesian Networks to Identify Influence Factors

Abstract EN

Under the increasingly uncertain economic environment, the research on the reliability of urban distribution system has great practical significance for the integration of logistics and supply chain resources.

This paper summarizes the factors that affect the city logistics distribution system.

Starting from the research of factors that influence the reliability of city distribution system, further construction of city distribution system reliability influence model is built based on Bayesian networks.

The complex problem is simplified by using the sub-Bayesian network, and an example is analyzed.

In the calculation process, we combined the traditional Bayesian algorithm and the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm, which made the Bayesian model able to lay a more accurate foundation.

The results show that the Bayesian network can accurately reflect the dynamic relationship among the factors affecting the reliability of urban distribution system.

Moreover, by changing the prior probability of the node of the cause, the correlation degree between the variables that affect the successful distribution can be calculated.

The results have significant practical significance on improving the quality of distribution, the level of distribution, and the efficiency of enterprises.