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...

Ride Connect is a tool integrated into the social networking site Facebook’s (www.Facebook.com) event planning feature. Ride Connect helps people coordinate transportation to specific events. We chose to focus on undergraduate students because changes in their attitudes and habits towards shared transportation will lead to a sustainable increase in public transportation (PT) use. Ride Connect e...

As the automotive industry has been striving to enhance its efficiency, competitiveness, and sustainability, great focus is often placed on opportunities for improving its supply chain operations. We study the effect of introducing multiple modes of transportation in an industry-motivated production and transportation problem involving short-term automotive supply chain planning. We consider mu...

As part of a program to determine how small structural changes become manifest in the optical properties of crystals we used classical dipole–dipole interaction calculations to estimate the linear birefringence and optical rotatory power of the crystals Ph4X where X ~ C, Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb. Field induced effects including second harmonic generation, the electro-optic response and electrogyratio...

The automotive industry has made much efforts to deliver finished vehicles to customers with speed and reliability. Decreasing the time a vehicle stays within an assembly plant from production release to shipment contributes to reduce the total order lead-time and consequently, the total transportation cost as well. Conventional shipment planning algorithms are limited in accommodating the dyna...

car-following models, as the most popular microscopic traffic flow modeling, is increasingly being used by transportation experts to evaluate new intelligent transportation system (its) applications. a number of factors including individual differences of age, gender, and risk-taking behavior, have been found to influence car-following behavior. this paper presents a novel idea to calculate the...

Nowadays, cross docking plays an important role in the supply chain networks especially in transportation systems. According to the cross dock system advantages such as reducing transportation costs, lead times, and inventories, scheduling in a cross-dock center would be more complicated by increasing the number of suppliers, customers and product types. Considering the cross dock limited capac...

Optimization plays an important role in most real world applications that support decision makers to take the right decision regarding the strategic directions and operations of the system they manage. Solutions for traffic management and traffic congestion problems are considered major problems that most decision making authorities for cities around the world are looking for. This review paper...