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Railway Container Station Reselection Approach and Application: Based on Entropy-Cloud Model
Joint Authors
Shuai, Bin
Huang, Wencheng
Wang, Lei
Antwi, Eric
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-01-05
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Reasonable railway container freight stations layout means higher transportation efficiency and less transportation cost.
To obtain more objective and accurate reselection results, a new entropy-cloud approach is formulated to solve the problem.
The approach comprises three phases: Entropy Method is used to obtain the weight of each subcriterion during Phase 1, then cloud model is designed to form the evaluation cloud for each subcriterion during Phase 2, and finally during Phase 3 we use the weight during Phase 1 to multiply the initial evaluation cloud during Phase 2.
MATLAB is applied to determine the evaluation figures and help us to make the final alternative decision.
To test our approach, the railway container stations in Wuhan Railway Bureau were selected for our case study.
The final evaluation result indicates only Xiangyang Station should be renovated and developed as a Special Transaction Station, five other stations should be kept and developed as Ordinary Stations, and the remaining 16 stations should be closed.
Furthermore, the results show that, before the site reselection process, the average distance between two railway container stations was only 74.7 km but has improved to 182.6 km after using the approach formulated in this paper.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Huang, Wencheng& Shuai, Bin& Wang, Lei& Antwi, Eric. 2017. Railway Container Station Reselection Approach and Application: Based on Entropy-Cloud Model. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1192481
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Huang, Wencheng…[et al.]. Railway Container Station Reselection Approach and Application: Based on Entropy-Cloud Model. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1192481
American Medical Association (AMA)
Huang, Wencheng& Shuai, Bin& Wang, Lei& Antwi, Eric. Railway Container Station Reselection Approach and Application: Based on Entropy-Cloud Model. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1192481
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1192481