In the last four decades the container as an essential part of a unitload-concept has achieved undoubted importance in international sea freight transportation. With ever increasing containerization the number of seaport container terminals and competition among them have become quite remarkable. Operations are nowadays unthinkable without effective and efficient use of information technology a...

Despite the growing role of barge transportation in the hinterland access of major seaports in Northwestern Europe, service network design for intermodal barge transportation has received little research attention. In this paper, a decision support model for service network design in intermodal barge transportation is presented. The model determines optimal shipping routes for roundtrip service...

Bremen, Federal State of Germany, is planning to set up a headquarter for GMES Global Monitoring of Environment and Security. One goal of the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) is to develop services for GMES to improve the security in intermodal container transport with emphasis on the maritime sector. ISL is developing a Security Event Management System which takes care of al...

We develop an aerodynamic loading assignment model for intermodal freight trains based on an integer-programming framework to help terminal managers make up more fuel-efficient trains. This is the first use of optimization modeling to address the aerodynamics and energy efficiency of railroad intermodal trains. Several recommendations regarding railway equipment use, operations, and policy are ...

1 2 3 Ricardo Giesen * 4 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 5 Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics 6 Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile 7 Phone: (+56-2) 354-5893 8 Fax.: (+56-2) 354-0281 9 [email protected] 10 * Corresponding author 11 12 Héctor Martínez 13 Universidad de la República 14 Operations Research Department 15 J. Herrera y Reissig 565, Montevideo, Uruguay...

M. P. M. HENDRIKS∗, D. ARMBRUSTER∗,†,¶, M. LAUMANNS‡,‖, E. LEFEBER∗,§ and J. T. UDDING∗ ∗Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Networks Group, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, P. O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands †School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287, USA ‡Institute for Operations Research, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, ...

The opinions of logistics educators in Taiwan on OR practices in the domestic logistics industry are explored in this research. In this study, questionnaires were given to 42 pre-screened educators at 10 logistics departments and graduate institutes. According to the 37 valid returned questionnaires, 70% of the responding educators believe the major source of OR techniques in Taiwan’s logistics...

The worldwide economic growth of the last century has given rise to a vast consumption of goods while globalization has led to large streams of goods all over the world. The production, transportation, storage and consumption of all these goods, however, have created large environmental problems. Today, global warming, created by large scale emissions of greenhouse gasses, is a top environmenta...