Dynamic programming of port position and scale in the hierarchized container ports network

摘要

A hierarchized container ports network, with several super hubs and many multi- level hub ports, will be established, mainly serving transshipment and carrying out most of its business in the hub-spoke mode. This paper sums up a programming model, in which the elementary statistic units, cost and expense of every phase of any shipment are the straight objects, and the minimum cost of the whole network is taken as the objective.