Purpose The impact of transportation on the supplier selection has received a very scant attention in the literature. This is a great limitation because splitting orders across multiple suppliers will lead to smaller transportation quantities which will likely imply larger transportation cost. Moreover, transportation and inventory elements are highly interrelated and contribute most to the tot...

This digest summarizes NCHRP Project 20-29(2), “Development of a Computer Model for Multimodal, Multicriteria Transportation Investment Analysis.” The Transportation Decision Analysis Software, or TransDec, was developed to provide the transportation practitioner with an easy-to-use tool for performing multimodal, multicriteria investment analysis. This digest is based on a draft final report p...

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2 Introduction Metro has developed a regional econometric model (MARIO), a residential real estate model (RELM), a nonresidential real estate model and a transportation model. We have embedded the four models in a GIS based accounting and visualization tool that we call Metroscope. In regard to Metro's model development this paper discusses the reasons that Metro engages in modeling, shows how ...

In this paper, an incentive scheme based on crashing lead time is proposed to coordinate a supplier-retailer supply chain (SC). In the investigated SC, the supplier applies a lot-for-lot replenishment policy to replenish its stock and determines the replenishment multiplier. Moreover, the transportation lead time is considered under the control of the supplier. The retailer as downstream member...

Abstract This paper proposes an optimization scheme of the transportation assignment for the oil product secondary distribution. Firstly, for the multi-variety oil product a cost model of the secondary distribution system for the oil product is established. Then a transportation assignment scheme is designed with the table-manipulation method. Based on the proposed transportation assignment sch...

a considerable problem in competitive trade world is choosing the best supply chain. as a result in much more serious circumstances of competitions looking for the best supplier for manufacturing, for preparing raw material, is very significant. meantime suppliers have different scenarios to be fulfilled, such as changing selection variables like lead-time, transportation cost and transportatio...

This paper studies the cost control strategy on cash transportation of China's banking industry under the context of the global financial crisis. It analyses the actual work law of the bank cash transportation profoundly and the impact factors at the transportation costs, and constructs the singlematerial vehicle routing optimization model with rigid time constraints. It uses the genetic algori...

Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) charging stations couple future transportation systems and power systems. That is, PEV driving and charging behavior will influence the two networks simultaneously. This paper studies optimal planning of PEV fast-charging stations considering the interactions between the transportation and electrical networks. The geographical targeted planning area is a highway t...