Cooperative optimization for container multi-modal transport based on MAS

As the international container multi-modal transport has become the important bridge of international trade, routing optimization and carrier selection has been already attracted extensive attention. Besides economy and timeliness, the transport reliability under uncertainty environment is considered and a cooperative optimization model for container multi-modal transport based on multi-agent is also proposed. To deal with the coordination between the agents, the negotiation mechanism based on multi-attribute auction is further designed. With the bidding and the winning strategy of the carriers and the multi-modal transport operator proposed respectively, a mechanism based on three-dimensional network and non-linear compensation function for updating the scheduling plan is designed. And the simulation experiments which use the instances from China to Australia verify the feasibility of the model and the method proposed.