The objective of the paper is to study the integration of revenue management considerations into service network design models targeting the tactical planning of intermodal consolidation-based freight transportation carriers. Revenue management strategies and mechanisms are broadly used within passenger transportation. Although identified as a desirable feature for freight transportation, interest growing within the industry, few contributions have addressed the topic. Moreover, almost none of those target the challenging issue of the interactions between the planning of the carrier’s services and operations, on the one hand, and the revenue-management strategy it could implement, on the other hand. We propose a new scheduled service network design model with resource and revenue management model, which selects the services and schedule to be repeatedly operated over the next season, allocates and routes the main resources supporting the selected services, and routes the demand flows between their respective origins and destinations. The objective of the model is the maximization of the expected net revenue of the carrier when several customer categories, with specific service requirements, as well as several tariff and operation classes are considered. Our interest goes beyond the modeling challenges raised by the problem setting, to exploring the impacts of this new approach on the decision types and on the structure of the service network solutions obtained. The results of extensive experiments, in terms of demand distribution, network topology, fare class and quality-of-service, provide a proof of concept of the proposed modeling framework and its capability for insightful analyses. Experimentation was conducted using an off-the-shelf software to solve the corresponding mixed-integer linear programming formulation for realistically dimensioned barge intermodal transportation instances.

本文的目的是研究将收入管理考虑整合到服务网络设计模型中，以针对基于多式联运的货运承运人的战术规划。收入管理策略和机制广泛应用于客运领域。尽管被认为是货运的理想功能，但行业内的兴趣不断增长，但很少有文章涉及该主题。此外，几乎没有一个针对运营商服务和运营规划之间相互作用的挑战性问题，另一方面，它可以实施的收入管理战略。我们提出了一种新的具有资源和收益管理模型的定时服务网络设计模型，它选择下个季节重复运营的服务和时间表，分配和路由支持所选服务的主要资源，并在各自的起点和目的地之间路由需求流。该模型的目标是在考虑多个具有特定服务要求的客户类别以及多个资费和运营类别时，使运营商的预期净收入最大化。我们的兴趣超越了问题设置带来的建模挑战，探索了这种新方法对决策类型和获得的服务网络解决方案结构的影响。在需求分布、网络拓扑、票价等级和服务质量方面的广泛实验的结果，提供拟议建模框架的概念证明及其进行深入分析的能力。使用现成的软件进行了实验，以解决实际尺寸的驳船多式联运实例的相应混合整数线性规划公式。