Research To A Two-stage Optimization Method For Domestic Air Express Operation

With the booming Chinese economy, the domestic express delivery market, especially the air express market, developed very rapidly. Domestic courier companies, however, limited to internal and external factors, cannot provide services as well as foreign giants. How to improve their competitiveness based on the actual situation is currently a pressing issue.Through in-depth investigation of a express delivery company’s domestic air express business under actual situation and a review of relevant literature, this paper present that the domestic air express market is characterized by aging and price sensitive customers, but the available aviation resources are scarcity and uneven distribution. Based on these features, this paper present a mathematical programming model balanced between timeliness and cost, by solving the model and derive the shadow prices of constraint resources, this paper establishment an online decision support system to adapt to daily environmental changes.This result can guide the domestic express companies to optimize the daily operations under existing conditions, and help them in the formulation of development strategies. It can be extended to other express delivery business too.