Intermodal transportation hub location optimization with governments subsidies under the Belt and Road Initiative.

ABSTRACT: Driven by globalization, the COVID-19 outbreak has severely impacted global transport and logistics systems. To better cope with this globalization crisis, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)-based on the concept of cooperation-is more important than ever in the post-pandemic era. Taking the BRI as the background, we design an intermodal hub-and-spoke network to provide reference for governments along BRI routes to improve their cross-border transportation system and promote economic recovery. In the context of the BRI, local governments at different nodes have incentives to subsidize hub construction and/or rail transportation to boost economic development. We consider co-opetition behavior among different levels of government caused by subsidies in this intermodal hub location problem, wh

SUBMITTER: Li L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9653034 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature