Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) harness advanced communications and computation technologies in order to make transportation systems more efficient. This work is concerned with the application of ITS to commercial vehicle operations and freight mobility; it identifies and investigates potential uses of real-time information for the efficient management of carrier operations. In trucklo...

The dynamic assignment problem arises in a number of application areas in transportation and logistics. Taxi drivers have to be assigned to pick up passengers, police have to be assigned to emergencies, and truck drivers have to pick up and carry loads of freight. All of these problems are characterized by demands that arrive continuously and randomly throughout the day, and require a dispatche...

This paper deals with a long distance routing problem. The aim is to improve the use of the resources in order to reduce the distance. In this way of transport are known three kinds of pure distribution strategies: many to many, the trips are full truckload or the time restrictions are very tight, so they are direct shipments; the second one is known as peddling, in this case, closed collecting...

Full truckload transportation (FTL) in the form of freight containers represents one most important modes international trade. Due to large volume and scale, FTL, delivery time is often less critical but cost service quality are crucial. Therefore, efficiently solving scale multiple shift FTL problems becoming more requires further research. In our earlier studies, a set covering model three-st...

http://www.aic.gov.au Adam Graycar Director Many companies suffer losses through cargo theft, particularly small businesses, yet it is an area of business crime that receives scant attention. A single truckload of cargo can be worth as much as $3 million. The risk of theft, especially if the goods have a black market value, is very real. Worldwide, the direct cost of cargo theft is estimated at...

Faced with procuring transportation over its freight network, a shipper can either bid out all of its lanes at once, or somehow divide up the network and bid it out in pieces. For large shippers, practical concerns such as attendant manpower requirements and exposure to financial/operational risks can make the former undesirable or even infeasible. Such a shipper therefore needs to determine ho...

This paper presents a research study which aims at determining optimal locations of regional distribution centers in a collaborative distribution network. We consider a multi-layered distribution system between a cluster of suppliers from a given region and several thousands customers spread over the whole country. The optimization problem consists of finding the locations of intermediate logis...

Considerably less research has been done on modeling freight demand with disaggregate discrete models than on modeling passenger demand. The principal reason for this imbalance is the lack of freight demand data. Freight demand characteristics are expensive to obtain and are sometimes confidential. This paper analyzes the freight demand characteristics that drive modal choice by means of a larg...

Background: Traffic noise is one of the major sources of environmental pollution that can cause permanent or temporary loss of hearing in drivers. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hearing loss among professional long-distance drivers in Bandar Abbas freight terminal. Methods: One thousand long distance occupational drivers in Bandar Abbas freight terminal not certifie...