Recently, the number of intermodal barge/road and rail/road terminals in Western Europe has boomed, facilitating a growth of more sustainable hinterland freight transport. But currently, the question is raised if additional intermodal terminals are still desirable, if they can operate in an economically viable way and where they should be located in the existing transport network. The goal of t...

With the increase in pollutants, need to use electric vehicles (EVs) various urban logistics activities is an increasingly important issue. Currently, there are issues with efficiency of transport companies recognizing effects uncertain factors daily operations. Thus, this research proposes a novel fuzzy two-echelon vehicle routing problem involving heterogeneous fleet EVs and internal combusti...

The Haiti earthquake relief effort in 2010 involved numerous civil and military organizations engaged in vigorous relief operations, exemplifying rapid deployment of logistics, transport, security and medical supplies. Yet, to determine the effectiveness of these operations, and to understand how these various organizations collaborated, and eventually how to improve the future overall effectiv...

The authors are researching the impact of the electronic economy upon the transport value chain, and especially upon the port as a technological hub point. The electronic economy impacts on the transportation chain, as well as on logistics, outline a different view on port operations. Ports do not bind themselves to basic transit operations only, but they rather involve the sophisticated logist...

The paper discusses requirements for freight modelling and presents specific approaches concerning freight surveys, demand and network modelling, rail freight optimisation and freight assignment including: • Surveying methods for collecting road based demand data. • WIVER/VISEVA: a demand modelling system for urban and regional commercial transport. • SPIN: a multimodal network model for interm...

We consider the problem of optimizing over time hundreds or thousands of discrete entities that may be characterized by relatively complex attributes, in the presence of different forms of uncertainty. Such problems arise in a range of operational settings such as transportation and logistics, where the entities may be aircraft, locomotives, containers or people. These problems can be formulate...

In recent years, considerable effort in the field of operations research has been paid to optimizing airline operations, including the logistics of an airline’s fleet of aircraft. We focus on the problem of aircraft routing, which involves generating and selecting a particular route for each aircraft of a sub-fleet that is already assigned to a set of feasible sequences of flight legs. Similar ...

logistics outsourcing has been at the top of the management agenda during recent decades. the selection of the proper service supplier is the key to success in logistic outsourcing firms could select the right supplier by applying appropriate methods and selection criteria. in this paper a new framework is proposed on the basis of weighted additive fuzzy programming approach and linear programm...

During the last decade, reverse logistics networks received a considerable attention due to economic importance and environmental regulations and customer awareness. Integration of leading and reverse logistics networks during logistical network design is one of the most important factors in supply chain. In this research, an Integer Linear Programming model is presented to design a multi-layer...