Convenience vegetable stores are distributed in various districts of the city,which is difficult to distribute,mainly reflected in the high cost of distribution and transportation.In order to solve this problem,combin...Convenience vegetable stores are distributed in various districts of the city,which is difficult to distribute,mainly reflected in the high cost of distribution and transportation.In order to solve this problem,combining with the characteristics of convenience vegetable stores and urban transportation,an optimization model of distribution route considering transit nodes is established.The model takes into account both soft time window and hard time window.Soft time window is used to calculate the cost increase caused by an urban traffic jam.Hard time window is the unified service time of convenience vegetable stores,and the cost of transit damage is considered to make the model more realistic.The genetic algorithm is used to solve the model with a onestage solution method.The effectiveness and feasibility of the model and algorithm are verified by an example.The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified by comparing the optimal solutions in the case of setting up transit and not setting up transit.The result shows that when the number of convenience vegetable stores is large,the establishment of transit can reduce the overall transportation cost.Quantitative analysis shows that with the further increase in convenience vegetable stores in cities,the distribution of convenience vegetable stores can be improved by planning scientific path and by increasing transit nodes.展开更多
This paper suggests that credibly committing to the strictly lowest price can be profitable and self-fulfilling in a spatial price competition. Consumers live in multiple residential zones. Each zone has a store. Cons...This paper suggests that credibly committing to the strictly lowest price can be profitable and self-fulfilling in a spatial price competition. Consumers live in multiple residential zones. Each zone has a store. Consumers incur heterogeneous transportation costs moving between two zones. When there is one store credibly committing to the strictly lowest price, there is a pure strategy equilibrium in which a discount store directly competes with all other stores. The discount store offers the lowest price, takes the largest market share, and makes more profits than the other stores. Moreover, the low price commitment is not binding in equilibrium, which implies that the commitment is self-fulfilling.展开更多
基金This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.G71390334)Beijing Social Science Fund(No.16JDGLB012)Beijing Logistics Informatics Research Base.
文摘Convenience vegetable stores are distributed in various districts of the city,which is difficult to distribute,mainly reflected in the high cost of distribution and transportation.In order to solve this problem,combining with the characteristics of convenience vegetable stores and urban transportation,an optimization model of distribution route considering transit nodes is established.The model takes into account both soft time window and hard time window.Soft time window is used to calculate the cost increase caused by an urban traffic jam.Hard time window is the unified service time of convenience vegetable stores,and the cost of transit damage is considered to make the model more realistic.The genetic algorithm is used to solve the model with a onestage solution method.The effectiveness and feasibility of the model and algorithm are verified by an example.The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified by comparing the optimal solutions in the case of setting up transit and not setting up transit.The result shows that when the number of convenience vegetable stores is large,the establishment of transit can reduce the overall transportation cost.Quantitative analysis shows that with the further increase in convenience vegetable stores in cities,the distribution of convenience vegetable stores can be improved by planning scientific path and by increasing transit nodes.
文摘This paper suggests that credibly committing to the strictly lowest price can be profitable and self-fulfilling in a spatial price competition. Consumers live in multiple residential zones. Each zone has a store. Consumers incur heterogeneous transportation costs moving between two zones. When there is one store credibly committing to the strictly lowest price, there is a pure strategy equilibrium in which a discount store directly competes with all other stores. The discount store offers the lowest price, takes the largest market share, and makes more profits than the other stores. Moreover, the low price commitment is not binding in equilibrium, which implies that the commitment is self-fulfilling.
