A New Approach of Supply Chain Cost Modeling for Integrated Rail-post Package Distribution System in China

This paper analysis the current situation of Chinese Railways (CR), the progress of reforms in future, and possible future developments, the purpose to give a new integrate rail-post package distribution system in China. Based on it, this paper proposed a new approach of supply chain time-cost modeling. The first section describes the current research and problems. Integrated rail-post package distribution system is defined in second section. The third section some notations are given for understanding the formulation. Next section, the paper analysis the component of the cost construction which is divided four parts including local cost, access cost, long-haul cost and reposition cost. Furthermore, each part is considered for obtaining the cost function respectively. The fifth section gives integrated rail-post package distribution cost functions. Finally, conclusion is given in this paper.