Print Email Facebook Twitter Using time-dependent route choice model to analyze the profitability of multimodal transport in flower industry Title Using time-dependent route choice model to analyze the profitability of multimodal transport in flower industry: From the perspective of buyers of the FloraHolland Author Chen, Z. Contributor Lodewijks, G. (mentor) Corman, F. (mentor) Zhang, M. (mentor) Pel, A.J. (mentor) Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Maritime & Transport Technology Programme Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics Date 2015-12-14 Abstract The title of my master thesis is “Using time-dependent route choice model to analyze the profitability of multimodal transport in flower industry -- From the perspective of buyers of the FloraHolland”. The report aims to analyze the profitability of cut flower transport using multimodal transport in short/medium-distance by building a time-dependent route choice model to choose an optimal route between the origin and the destination by comparing the route costs of multimodal and unimodal transport from the perspective of buyers of the FloraHolland Company. The first chapter introduces what and how the report is going to research the topic based on relevant studies having been done. The second chapter illustrates the background of the flower industry, including the introduction of different species of cut flower, the supply chain of rose of the cut flower and analysis of stakeholders of transport section of the supply chain. The problem statement, research objective, scope and research approach are demonstrated in chapter three. The report reviews the literature in freight planning, route choice approach, static and dynamic traffic models in chapter four. Time-dependent model is constructed in the fifth chapter, and the computational process of Matlab software is explained. Chapter six is a case study of the model. The input data of the case come from references, interviewing with stakeholders, Google map, and assumptions. Sensitivity analysis of constants is applied for validation. In the following analysis of the results of the case, the influences of factors of the model are analyzed. Then, an ideal scenario for multimodal is concluded from previous analyzes. The choice of departure time at the origin results in different schedule delay costs and different congestion level on the highway. Then, transport time of one route from the origin to the destination is changing with departure time. In the cost function of the model, transport time is an important variable.Thus, the choice of optimal route from the origin to the destination is changing with the choice of departure time. This deduction is simulated and analyzed in the case study. In the preliminary results of the case study, the time-dependent optimal routes are mainly in unimodal transport. The routes in multimodal transport can be the optimal choice when stakeholders introduce policies benefit to main modes of multimodal transport. In the conclusion of the report, multimodal transport is not more beneficial than unimodal transport for buyers from the initial results of the model which represents the current situation. However, multimodal transport can be profitability in flower industry from the perspective of buyers of the FloraHolland Company if the stakeholders formulate policies beneficial to multimodal transport. Subject multimodal and unimodal transporttime-dependent route choice modelflower industry To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:be088199-9fae-46dc-96f5-d0018a4ce890 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2015 Chen, Z. Files PDF master_thesis_Z_CHEN.pdf 4.86 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:be088199-9fae-46dc-96f5-d0018a4ce890/datastream/OBJ/view