Air cargo logistics: designing a forwarder's shipment plan model and issues.

Wong Wai Hung.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-103).Abstracts in English and Chinese.LIST OF TABLES --- p.iiiLIST OF FIGURES --- p.vABSTRACT --- p.viiChapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Goals and Significance --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Thesis Organization --- p.2Chapter Chapter 2. --- Review on Air Cargo Industry --- p.3Chapter 2.1 --- The Position of Air Cargo Logistics --- p.3Chapter 2.2 --- General Air Cargo Practice --- p.3Chapter 2.3 --- Hong Kong Air Cargo Practice - An Example --- p.1Chapter Chapter 3. --- Air Cargo Cost Analysis --- p.12Chapter 3.1 --- Shipping Costs --- p.12Chapter 3.1.1 --- International Shipping Costs --- p.12Chapter 3.1.2 --- Local Shipping Costs --- p.14Chapter 3.2 --- Shipment Categorization --- p.15Chapter 3.2.1 --- Illustrative Examples - Hong Kong --- p.18Chapter 3.3 --- Analysis of shipping cost --- p.27Chapter 3.4. --- Freight Forwarders' means for freight forwarders' success --- p.29Chapter 3.4.1 --- Consolidation --- p.31Chapter 3.4.2 --- Integration --- p.42Chapter 3.4.3 --- Cooperation among freight forwarders to combine the cargos --- p.44Chapter 3.5 --- Summary --- p.44Chapter Chapter 4. --- A Mixed 0-1 LP Model of Air Cargo Logistics integration & consolidation --- p.47Chapter 4.1 --- Statement of the Problem --- p.47Chapter 4.2 --- Literature Review --- p.49Chapter 4.3 --- Objective Function --- p.51Chapter 4.4 --- Logical Constraints --- p.52Chapter 4.5 --- Resources Constraints --- p.54Chapter 4.6 --- The Model --- p.55Chapter 4.7 --- Properties of the Model --- p.56Chapter Chapter 5. --- Solution Process --- p.58Chapter 5.1 --- Tabu Search --- p.59Chapter 5.2 --- Tabu Search Algorithm --- p.62Chapter 5.3 --- Illustrative Example --- p.64Chapter 5.4 --- Implementation and Results --- p.70Chapter Chapter 6. --- Extensions --- p.73Chapter 6.1 --- Different approaches as the initial solution --- p.73Chapter 6.2 --- Risk or Reliability Limit --- p.75Chapter 6.3 --- Consolidation with inventory penalty --- p.78Chapter 6.4 --- Two Phase Method --- p.79Chapter Chapter 7. --- Sensitivity Analysis --- p.81Chapter 7.1 --- Delivery time --- p.81Chapter 7.2 --- Charging price and cost --- p.85Chapter 7.3 --- Resources allocations --- p.92Chapter 7.4 --- A series of good solutions --- p.95Chapter Chapter 8. --- Conclusion --- p.98Chapter 8.1 --- Future Work --- p.98Chapter 8.2 --- Future Research --- p.100LIST OF REFERENCES --- p.102Appendix --- p.104Simulation results --- p.104Pseudo code --- p.107Program Coding --- p.11