Incorporating revenue loss and congestion cost into rail freight subsidy design: Lessons learned from the China-Europe freight transportation network

Chi Xie*, Rusi Wang, Dianlei Wang, et al.; Pre-dissertation research

• Addresses the freight subsidy optimization problem based on a multimodal multicommodity network equilibrium model.
• Considers the carrier’s revenue loss and shippers’ congestion surcharge simultaneously.
• Compares the proposed optimization scheme with the currently implemented subsidy scheme to demonstrate its effectiveness.