THE DECISION MAKING OF FREIGHT ROUTE IN MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION
Keywords:
Analytic hierarchy process (AHP), multimodal transportation, beverage industry transportation, quantitative risk assessment (QRA), zero-one goal programming model (ZOGP)Abstract
The transportation of beverage products from Thailand to neighboring ASEAN countries has been rising fast, especially in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar (Department of ForeignTrade, Ministry of Commerce, Thailand 2015). Nevertheless, the main transportation routes of this product are still restricted to road transportation, though it involves with higher cost compared to rail and waterway. This paper develops a framework for routeselection in multimodal transportation about the case study of beverage transportation from Thailand to Cambodia. One of the objectives is to determine the optimized route that optimizes cost, lead time, and risk in the system by using a five phases framework. The first phase is to define areas of study and identify all the related routes. The second phase is tocalculate time and cost of each route. The third phase is to integrate qualitative decision making (Quantitative risk assessment) which are assessed by the experts or Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) for each criterion. The fourth phase is to prioritize criteria byusing Analytic Hierarchy Process. The final phase is to optimize the route by using the Zero-one goal programming. The results have shown that the approach can provide aguidance in choosing the optimal cost, time and risk for multimodal transportation inbeverage industry effectively.
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