Social Economic Analyses Of Civil Logistics Storage In Urban-Rural Fringe

With the rapid development of cities and the enhancing of their gathering functions, a number of civil logistics storage activities begin to spread rapidly. Among those activities, these in the urban-rural fringes with their large warehousing scale show their competition ability of storage as a result of the coexistence of formal and informal storage, which offers a variety of social and economic impact. Thus, the necessary socio-economic analysis can help improve the overall efficiency of logistics and warehousing industry and enrich the designing and analyinging methods of urban logistics systems.In this paper, we define and formal logistics storage from a new perspective and analyze the civil logistics storage’s internal and external environment and demanding problems. Besides, its operation process and cost struction are also decomposed. The network equilibrium theory is used to analyze its market competition ability under the supply chain environment. The DEA theory is used to analyze and evaluate its social and economic benefit, which could provide a new way of thinking and more reliable scientific basis for perfecting and improving the city’s logistics system. The main contents are introduced in the following passage:(1) Based on the current condition and conceptual framework of the civil logistics storage in urban-rural fringe, in-depth analysis and research is done, which is combined with game theory and theory of value chain. This paper also scientificly define the civil logistics storage in urban-rural fringe together with its characteristics, behavior, and game process. Systematic collection and analysis is done on the background conditions of its formation and dynamic factors. The macro and micro market environment and its evolution is also analyzed. The research shows that it is an endogenous, bottom-up phenomenon and behavior, which is disordered.(2) By combining the characteristics of its operating procedures, a comprehensive analysis is done on the civil logistics storage’s structure of costs and benefits, based on which its supplier’s internal benefits and the broker’s distributing benefits is analyzed together with the external benefits related to this economic activity. The internal costs of each operating procedure is studied, such as storage facilities costs, storage costs, handling costs and transportation costs. A detailed and quantitive analysis is done on external costs, such as the environmental costs, the cost of road damage and traffic congestion costs and other external costs.(3) The logistics storage facilities’ network characteristics is business-flow-premised and material needs-based. With the support of the supply chain, research is done on the network warehousing businessmen’s, manufacturer’s, brokers’, and customers’decision-making behaviors and equilibrium conditions under the network environment. Variational inequalities is introduced to build a multi-level and multi-commodity flow supply chain network equilibrium model. And its revised projection algorithm and super traffic network equilibrium model are given to solve the problem. Combined with the micro-economic theory, the influence of the macro and micro dynamic change of the environment on civil logistics storage’market competition ability is well-studied. With the change of this ability, the entire network’s performance includes the total consumer surplus and social welfare changes are well analyzed.(4) Throuth analyzing the basic contents, objectives and principles of the civil logistics storage’s social economic evaluation, it is found that its evaluation method and framework follow the building principles which are simple, practical and efficient. Economic evaluation network DEA model is established based on the processes of construction, storage, distribution. The corresponding input and output indicators are selected. And the solution method and procedures are given. Its results are analyzed according to the corresponding data collected. Then the "DEA-Tobit evaluation model" for social and economic benefits assessment is built and mixed DEA model is introducted for improving. Thus, it has a good effect on handling both tapered and non-cone index, including the establishment of comprehensive external performance evaluation ones which reflect the quality of service, industry trends, issues, logistics and external problems. A self-contained assessment system for the evaluation of the logistics storage’s social and economic benefits is provided and it is verifird that the mixed DEA-Tobit model is scientific and practical. (5) Based on the aforementioned theoretical and empirical analysis, strategies and suggestions are offered on how to develop the urban logistics storage industry in a balanced and coordinated way from the three aspects which are planning and supplying, market equilibrium management and information processing and sharing. All of these researches provide some useful reference for the logistics storage industry’s development.This paper offers a good reference for the government and its functions to scientificly manage and make decisions, and for the logistics storage enterprises to change their concept of doing business, to control logistics cost and measure their performances.