Staying awake means staying alive. This is a slogan used to describe a research study on sleep apnea sponsored by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the American Transportation Research Institute of the American Trucking Associations (ATA). The research project addressed the prevalence of sleep apnea among commercial truck drivers, potential risk factors, and its impact...

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2312, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2012, pp. 34–45. DOI: 10.3141/2312-04 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada. Current affiliation for J. Dahl: Lea Consulting Ltd., 625 Cochrane Drive, Suite 900, Mar...

The increase in global competition and energy prices over the past decade has forced industries to search for potential savings in their transportation supply chains and logistics systems. In some industries, such as the forest products industry, minimizing the transportation costs of raw materials is even more crucial. The relatively low value and high weight of their raw materials accounts fo...

We study a problem appearing at the end of a logistic stream in a warehouse and which concerns the timetabling of sorting slots necessary to accomodate the prepared orders before being dispatched. We consider a set of orders to be prepared on some preparation shops over a given time horizon. Each order is associated with the truck handling its transportation to its customer. A sorting slot is a...

In recent years, governments applied intelligent transportation system (ITS) technique to 8 provide several convenience services (e.g., garbage truck app) for residents. This study proposes a 9 garbage truck fleet management system (GTFMS) and data feature selection and data clustering 10 methods for travel time prediction. A GTFMS includes mobile devices (MD), on-board units, fleet 11 manageme...

vibration generated by vehicles during road transport has an important effect on the agricultural products damage process, particularly vegetable and fruit. modulus of elasticity is one of the most important mechanical properties of fruits and its variation can be described as one of the damage criteria during transportation. this research was conducted to evaluate the effects of vibration para...

This work describes the strategy of a Mexican firm to improve its transportation cost of unused truck capacity. This is based on the application of a transportation waste elimination scheme for increasing efficiency in its warehousing and routing operations on a detailed level. The Operational Equipment Effectiveness index used in TPM is adapted to be used as the main performance measure. Avail...

The formation of secure transportation corridors, where cargoes and shipments from points of entry can be dispatched safely to highly sensitive and secure locations, is a high national priority. One of the key tasks of the program is the detection of anomalous cargo based on sensor readings in truck weigh stations. Due to the high variability, dimensionality, and/or noise content of sensor data...

287 Numerous organizations are involved in distributing goods and materials. When shipping alternatives exist, the selection of the appropriate shipping alternative (mode) for each shipment may result in significant cost savings. This paper describes a highly flexible dispatching system that selects the shipping mode to be used for each shipment while minimizing the overall shipping costs. Mult...