Transit lines optimization model research based on the lowest total cost of hybrid hub-and-spoke road freight transport network

Increased competition in the transport market has led to more focus on enterprise´s logistics network. To build and improve the integration of logistics network is regarded as the key way to improve supply chain efficiency. This paper firstly focuses on the hub-and-spoke network structure which is widely used in road freight transport system, and by taking into account the restriction of sole service characteristics and service capacity limit, puts forward a hybrid hub-and-spoke network structure to optimize the road freight transport network; then, the paper sets up the total cost model of the network and carries on scientific quantization to every combination of the cost through exhaustive analysis to the cost; lastly, the paper introduces a (0,1) optimization mathematics model to optimize the transit lines based on the lowest total cost of hybrid hub-and-spoke network structure. A practical application to a third-party logistics provider is also described.