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In this study, the transportation and storage problems for regional power coal allocation planning are formulated as transportation and storage problems to realize the minimization of the regional transportation and storage cost. An effective optimization model is proposed to solve transportation and storage problems for regional power coal allocation planning, which has interactive effect on multiple participants, such as regional power plants, coal transportation companies, logistics centers, and coal storage centers. A case study illustrates that the model and algorithm are more reasonable compared with the classic transportation model, and the sensitivity analysis improves transportation and storage strategies for regional power coal allocation planning. Results demonstrate that this model can not only satisfy more of the actual requirements of the integral system but also offer more information to the decision-makers (DMs) for reference in favor of exalting decision-making quality.
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Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71103135) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Biography: FANG Debin, male, Ph.D., Associate professor, research direction: decision and game theory.
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Fang, D., Zhang, M. & Wang, X. Power coal transportation and storage: A programming analysis of road and rail options. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 16, 469–474 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-011-0783-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-011-0783-2