This paper mainly investigates the location problem of multi-product logistics distribution centers in uncertain environment. Based on the assumption that the customers’ demands and the transportation times are uncertain variables, an uncertain programming model is constructed. On the precondition of satisfying the capacity constraint and time window constraint, the objective of the model is to...

Significant advantages of intermodal and containerized transport have increased the global interest to this mode of transportation. This growing interest is reflected in the annual volume of container cargo growth. However, the container transport inside Iran does not have a proper place. Comparing the count of containers entering and leaving ports with the statistics obtained from railway and ...

While largely due to conditions outside their control, the configuration and setting of current intermodal rail terminals contribute to congestion and increased freight handling volumes that have resulted in additional transportation costs for shippers and carriers. Although a substantial body of research has focused on improving the efficiency of port operations and multi-modal freight shipmen...

The paper deals with topical issues of organizing intermodal transportation in the context restrictions and difficulties that have arisen as a result COVID-19 pandemic, taking into account increasingly active processes digitalization logistics industry. analysis main trends freight market during peak pandemic was made, well 2020-2021. development been identified; both current situation emerging...

The intermodal hinterland transportation of maritime containers is under pressure from port authorities and shippers to achieve a more integrated, efficient network operation. Current optimisation methods in literature yield limited results in practice, though, as the transportation product structure limits the flexibility to optimise network logistics. Synchromodality aims to overcome this by ...

Logistics customer service is an important factor in the success of supply chain management. The aim of this study is to propose a novel approach for customer service management. For the improvement of logistics service operations, the proposed method integrates quality function development (QFD), fuzzy extended analytic hierarchy process (FEAHP), and multi-segment goal programming (MSGP). The ...

IDSIA, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale is a research institute active in both theoretical and applied research in the field of Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence. Since 1996 IDSIA has capitalize on the results obtained in the theoretical field applying them to real world logistics and transport applications. In this communication we outline the major res...

Recent natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina in the United States, tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the earthquake in Pakistan, and numerous humanitarian challenges arising from such conflicts as that in Sudan have exposed the shortcomings in planning for disasters. In addition to the natural disasters, the homeland security issues related to domestic as well as inter...

Measuring the efficiency of Freight Villages (FVs) has important implications for logistics companies and other related companies as well as governments. In this paper we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the efficiency of European FVs in a purely data-driven way, incorporating the nature of FVs as complex operations that use multiple inputs and produce several outputs. We employ...