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Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volume 39, Issue 19, 1 October 2015, Pages 6043-6049
Applied Mathematical Modelling

The importance of freight villages: An implementation in TCDD

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Highlights

  • As a significant logistics transfer center between Asia and Europe, it is crucial for Turkey to be a logistics center.

  • Emphasized whether the freight villages are established whereas considering the importance of freight services of Turkish State Railways (TCDD).

  • This manuscript focuses on the freight villages intend to be established in several locations in Turkey on behalf of Turkish State Railways (TCDD).

  • Planning the current freight flows, determining optimum flows and eliminating redundant transports are considerable.

Abstract

Ever-increasing human population brings along human needs keep on increasing day by day. Trade, both domestic and international, has a vital importance for improving the significance of logistics activities and logistics sectors in order to meet growing demands. Increasing trade volumes influence the flow of goods from suppliers to manufacturers, manufacturers to end users. At this point freight villages play a key role to provide the flow. In this regard as a significant logistics transfer center between Asia and Europe, it is crucial for Turkey to be a logistics center. In this paper, emphasized whether the freight villages are established whereas considering the importance of freight services of Turkish State Railways (TCDD). Thus, concept of freight village, the planning of establishment of TCDD freight villages in 12 distinct locations in Turkey and possible contributions of these villages to the railway transport and the freight services of TCDD are considered. The current situation, freight profile, distribution network for transports are observed, transports from 7 geographical regions of Turkey to the freight centers are determined and by using linear programming and 0–1 integer programming a new distribution network is designed. The created model is solved and the results are interpreted.

Keywords

Freight village
TCDD
Freight service
Linear programming
0–1 integer programming

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