TITLE:
Rail-Road Hinterland Intermodal Terminal Location in West Africa Region—Case Study of Corridor Port of Abidjan to Ouagadougou-Bamako
AUTHORS:
Brou Mathias Allate
KEYWORDS:
Intermodal Terminals, Localization, Port Hinterland, Corridor, Port of Abidjan
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.9 No.4,
April
26,
2019
ABSTRACT: Efficient and effective movement of goods is very critical in today’s
competitive environment especially for developing countries suffering from
crippling logistics costs which limit their competitive ability in the global
economy. Putting in place an optimal logistics network design offers great
potential for logistics cost reduction and service quality improvement [1]. Therefore, this paper presents a
model for effective integration of inland intermodal terminal into logistics
network. The model simultaneously determines the number and location of inland
terminals in network that minimize the total cost of freight flow to
hinterland. The model uses Abidjan port in Cote d’Ivoire as the case study for
solving numeric examples. The problem will be formulated in the case of a
rail-road network where post-routing is done by road and rail link between
terminal. We present a linear optimization model which is implemented using
LINGO Mathematical Modeling Language.