Research on Container Multimodal Transportation Multi-Objective Path Optimization From Hinterlands to Shanghai Port

Given Shanghai Port’s proximity to the sea and the Yangtze River, this article investigated the optimization of Shanghai Port’s foreign trade container multimodal transport path. First and foremost, because the range of the port hinterland generating container is large, Sichuan Province, Chongqing Municipality, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Jiangxi Province, Anhui Province, and Jiangsu Province are chosen as the major container generating hinterland. And the container intermodal transportation network is centered on these cities and provinces. Then, using minimizing total transportation cost and total transportation time as objective functions, a multi-objective container multimodal transportation path optimization model is built. The improved multi-objective particle swarm approach is used to solve the mathematical mode. Finally, the efficient multimodal container transportation routes from Yibin, Luzhou, Chongqing, Yi-chang, Wuhan, Jiujiang, and Yueyang to Shanghai Port are identified. The acquired results are used to discuss the port competitiveness and freight organization games. It closes by verifying the usefulness of the approaches and models presented in this study. It is intended that the study presented in this paper will serve as a model and method reference for optimizing container multimodal transportation patterns.