cooperative alliances also arises from the need to address emerging concerns, such as the increase in shipper requirements and the role of the Internet and ICT in enhancing competition. Thus, a key operational challenge for carrier–carrier collaborative networks is to address these issues within a cooperative alliance and create win–win situations for all members in the alliance. LTL carrier co...

Muralidharan, B., "Dynamic routing and service network design for less-than-truckload (LTL) motor carriers " (1997). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. Paper 11831. INFORMATION TO USERS Tliis manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directfy from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are ia typewriter face, while other...

Abstract: Here city logistics terminal is defined as the facility consisting of warehouse center, marketing center, freight detaching center, distributing center and the information center. It is a link of freight transport between transport terminal such as port, railway freight station and highway entrance and the retailing facilities. The purpose of this study is to optimize the size and spa...

Freight transport by road is constantly increasing, therefore it very important to ensure efficient distribution of flows optimizing/reducing costs. With the recent increase in demand for small loads, less-than-truckload transportation services are becoming increasingly popular among representatives and large businesses. This method cargo more economically accessible useful. The increasing comp...

This study analyzes an integrated inventory control and transportation planning problem with carbon emissions regulations. We investigate the economic order quantity model with less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload (TL) transportation under carbon cap, cap and trade, cap and offset, and taxing policies. We find the retailer’s optimal order quantity under each regulation with LTL and TL carrie...

of profitability, spatially spread demand, and intense competition have incited a trend to seek solutions through ICT and the Internet (3). One manifestation of this is an increase in collaboration among small to medium-sized LTL carriers. That is, small to medium-sized carriers have begun to develop strategies that exploit synergies (such as excess capacity, overlapping lanes, and facilities),...

For an LTL (Less-than Truckload) carrier, the allocation of doors at a consolidation facility to outbound trailers assigned to various destinations, and to inbound trailers in the continuous stream arriving from various origins, has a significant impact on its operations, and on the nightly man-hours needed for consolidation. In the past literature door allocations to destinations of outbound t...

Sustainability throughout supply chains is gaining more importance and re-planning inventory operations can help companies curb emissions. In this study, we present two bi-objective integrated continuous review inventory control and transportation models with less-than-truckload and truckload carriers. Solution methods to approximate the Pareto Frontiers are proposed. Numerical studies illustra...

In the movement of freight across the supply chain, terminals play an important role as points of transfer between different modes. The location of terminals is one of the most crucial success factors bearing directly and indirectly on the main stakeholders involved including policy makers, investors, terminal operators, freight operators, and the local community affected. There have been sever...

Over a period of two years, 26.3 thousand road freight shipments were recorded. The records include information about truckload companies, drivers, and the causes non-compliance delays in deliveries. Logistic regression based working conditions as independent variables was used to predict deliveries attributed cargo drivers. Results show that vehicle type, medical coverage social security, leve...