The maturity of rail freight logistics service providers in Brazil

Routing Cars in Rail Freight Service

Service Quality and its Importance for Rail Freight Customers

Liberalisation process has just started in the Turkish rail market with the new law recently entered into force in order to comply with EU Directives. In the liberalised markets, service quality is the decisive factor that rail undertakings can use to create difference and achieve competitive advantages. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the customer perceived service quality for rail fre...

An Empirical Taxonomy for Logistics Service Providers

This study investigates the existence of different types of logistics service providers (LSPs) and the relationship of type with service performance. A cluster analysis of the survey data from 221 LSPs resulted in the identification of four types of LSP. The taxonomy was developed that reveals that LSPs are at various stages of development in terms of service capability, and highlights the serv...

Cost Calculation Model for Logistics Service Providers

The exact calculation of logistics costs has become a real challenge in logistics and supply chain management. It is essential to gain reliable and accurate costing information to attain efficient resource allocation within the logistics service provider companies. Traditional costing approaches, however, may not be sufficient to reach this aim in case of complex and heterogeneous logistics ser...

Scheduled Service Network Design for Freight Rail Transportation

The paper addresses the scheduled service network design problem for freight rail transportation. The proposed model integrates service selection and scheduling, car classification and blocking, train make up, and routing of time-dependent customer shipments, based on a cyclic three-layer space-time network representation of the associated operations and decisions, their relations and time dime...