Title: An effective system layout planning method for railway logistics centre in the background of big data

Authors: Jie Li

Addresses: School of Railway Operation and Management, Hunan Railway Professional Technology College, No. 18 Tian xin Road Shifeng District, Zhuzhou 412001, Hunan, China

Abstract: In the background of big data, railway logistics has become the inevitable trend of freight transportation. This paper puts forward a new method of logistics centre function area layout. Systematic layout planning (SLP) method is firstly used to analyse functional domains to construct a comprehensive correlation chart of the functional domains according to certain weights. Manhattan distance and circuitous path are used to express the distances among the functional domains and to construct a double-object function with minimised total trucking expense and maximised total integrated relations. In the practical application of R. Muther line chart method, the proposed method can get the feasible scheme of layout of functional areas, and it has good application value.

Keywords: big data; railway logistics centre; layout of functional domains; Manhattan distance; circuitous path.

DOI: 10.1504/IJRIS.2018.091121

International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems, 2018 Vol.10 No.1, pp.11 - 19

Received: 08 Apr 2017
Accepted: 06 Jun 2017

Published online: 11 Apr 2018 *

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