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ArticleOcean & coastal management2023

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

Lingchunzi Li, Jing Wang, Haijun Wang, Xin Jin, Lijing Du

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Lingchunzi LiSchool of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
Jing WangSchool of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
Haijun WangSchool of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
Xin JinSchool of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
Lijing DuSchool of Safety Science and Emergency Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China.

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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, which we call the intermodal hub location problem based on government subsidies. We establish a two-stage mixed-integer programming model. In the first stage, local governments provide subsidies, then the central government decides the number and location of hubs. In the second stage, freight carriers choose the optimal route to transport the goods. To solve the model, we design an optimization method combining a population-based algorithm using contest theory. The results show that rail subsidies are positively correlated with construction subsidies but are not necessarily related to the choice of hubs. Compared with monomodal transportation, intermodal transportation can reduce costs more effectively when there are not too many hubs and the cost of different modes of transportation varies greatly. The influences of local government competition and hub construction investment on network design and government subsidies are further examined.

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Belt and road initiativeContest theoryGovernment subsidyHub locationIntermodal transportation

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PMCPMC9653034

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