Journal article
Resilience analysis of the integrated China-Europe freight transportation network under heterogeneous demands
Transportation research. Part A, Policy and practice, v 186, 104130
Aug 2024
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Abstract
In recent years, there have been recurrent disruptions in global freight transportation shipping, prompting a focus on the need for increased resilience in the freight transportation network. Against this backdrop, the China-Europe Railway Express, an emerging alternative to shipping, has gained improvement. In light of these developments, an assessment of the resilience of the integrated China-Europe Freight Transportation Network (CEFTN) under disruptive influences has become crucial. In response to this necessity, this paper puts forward a generalized cost-based assessment system considering heterogeneous freight demands for evaluating the resilience of the CEFTN. In the case study, we not only conduct a series of sensitivity analyses to discover the impact of proportion of heterogeneous demands, freight charges, and duration time of disruptions on the system resilience, but also give a variety of detailed resilience analyses under different disrupted scenarios including system failures, natural disasters, geopolitical impact, and deliberate attacks. Through our analysis, we find that an increase in freight charges during disruptions could potentially improve the CEFTN resilience due to the effect of high time-value freight demands replacing low time-value freight demands. Moreover, strategies such as adjusting the freight flow, safeguarding critical links, and implementing different measures in different nodes are identified as additional measures to improve the resilience of the CEFTN.
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- Title
- Resilience analysis of the integrated China-Europe freight transportation network under heterogeneous demands
- Creators
- Xiaoyang Zhou - Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityJialong Sun - Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityHaoran Fu - Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityFuyi Ge - Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityJunfeng Wu - Shanghai WinJoin Information Technology Co. Ltd., Shanghai 200126, ChinaBenjamin Lev - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Transportation research. Part A, Policy and practice, v 186, 104130
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 19
- Grant note
- Key Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China: 22 ZD132 National Natural Science Foundation of China: 72271194
This work was supported by the Key Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China (22 & ZD132) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (72271194) . Xiaoyang Zhou and Jialong Sun are co-first authors.
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Decision Sciences (and Management Information Systems)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001325383000001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85196260070
- Other Identifier
- 991021889512004721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Economics
- Transportation
- Transportation Science & Technology