Development of Hub Terminal and Warehouse Infrastructure: Modification of Research Methods and Forecasts

Abstract

Purpose: Development of an economic-geographical method in finding the optimal locations of logistics freight distribution centers in the territory under consideration and its application to the construction of a geometric routing model for the distribution of cargo flows. Methods: The economic-geographic method of dividing the ‘areas of influence’ of transportation process participants. Statistical methods for processing empirical data. Monte Carlo method. Results: A geometric routing model has been developed for the distribution of cargo flows generated by participants in the transportation process competing in a territorial oligopolistic freight transportation market. Practical significance: The constructed model allows for a proper assessment of the existing transportation network to identify the ‘areas of influence’ of transportation process participants, considered as oligopolists in the regional freight transportation market.