With increasing demand volatility, companies must develop flexibility at multiple supply-chain stages, including in transportation. One method for doing this is combining long-term contract carriers with on-demand sourcing of transportation capacity from the spot market. In line growth online riding services, trucking services now emerging. This study investigates mixing contract-based and curr...

The advantage of multimodal transport is that it can deliver the goods to their destination in a reasonable combination modes while ensuring security and punctuality. Multimodal transportation effectively reduce logistics costs, improve efficiency, environmental pollution. In process transportation, due interference natural factors (weather, terrain, etc.) some special human factors, may have d...

Eco-driving is a keystone in energy reduction railways and fundamental tool to contribute the Sustainable Development Goals transport sector. However, its results real applications are subject uncertainties such as climatological factors that not considered train driving optimisation. This paper aims develop an eco-driving model design efficient commands considering uncertainty of conditions. t...

The advancement of data collection technologies has brought an upsurge in GPS applications. For example, travel behaviour research benefited from the integration multiple sources Global Positioning System (GPS) data. However, effective use such is still impeded by challenge processing. instance, data, despite providing detailed spatial movement information, do not label starting and finishing p...

Abstract Previous research in economics, social psychology, and sociology has produced compelling evidence that norms influence behavior. In this paper we apply the Krupka Weber (2013) norm elicitation procedure present U.S. non-U.S. born subjects with two scenarios for which tipping punctuality are known to vary across countries. We elicit shared beliefs by having match appropriateness ratings...

Despite the efforts of stakeholders to improve employee performance in banking sector through educational programs and trainings, quality service delivery commercial banks is still suboptimal Nigeria. The study therefore examined effect career development techniques on deposit money research design employed this was descriptive survey design. sample size 231 respondents drawn from population wh...

Since bus prioritization policies can help mitigate urban traffic jams, the planning of lanes has drawn considerable attention. Existing methods suffer from a common limitation, which is that limited spatial adaptability resulting certain road condition information cannot be directly specified. Many GPS trajectories have been accumulated and contiguously gathered if needed. This paper proposes ...

Traffic controllers regulate railway traffic by sequencing train movements and setting routes with the aim of ensuring smooth train behaviour and limiting as much as possible train delays. In this paper, we describe the implementation of a real-time traffic management system, called ROMA (Railway traffic Optimization by Means of Alternative graphs), to support controllers in the everyday task o...

BACKGROUND Leading a ward round is an essential skill for hospital consultants and senior trainees but is rarely assessed during training. OBJECTIVES To investigate the key attributes for ward round leadership and to use these results to develop a multisource feedback (MSF) tool to assess the ward round leadership skills of senior specialist trainees. METHODS A panel of experts comprising f...

Most existing research on the job shop scheduling problem has been focused on the minimization of makespan i.e., the completion time of the last job . However, in the fiercely competitive market nowadays, delivery punctuality is more important for maintaining a high service reputation. So in this paper, we aim at solving job shop scheduling problems with the total weighted tardiness objective. ...