Project Objectives The main purpose of this project is to analyze the impact of intermodal facilities in the design of supply chains for biofuel production facilities. This objective will be attained by pursuing two specific aims: (a) Build mathematical models that will be used to design the in-bound and out-bound supply chain of a biorefinery. This model will take as an input (i) location of e...

The focus of this conceptual article is to identify, characterise and qualitatively evaluate measures for increasing the utilisation of loading space in intermodal road-rail freight line trains. These trains operate like intercity passenger trains with short transhipment stops along rail corridors aiming at comparatively small and short flows. The measures include adapting the train capacity, t...

Nacrtak Extraction of short-wood from harvesting operations is becoming common practice in Russia. Logging companies are faced with a large number of options for short-wood transport, but they have limited knowledge of logistics potential. Developed GIS-based decision support program is a unique tool assisting logging companies in making comprehensive decisions on organizational options for the...

This paper considers the transportation of prefabricated products in construction industry. Prefabricated can be transported by road transport or intermodal transport, latter which incurs lower carbon emissions. A contractor always selects mode with a cost rather than one emission. bi-level programming model was formulated to decide optimal subsidy for achieve lowest emissions while accounting ...

This paper elaborates the different operations research methods used to solve container terminal operational decisions including terminal design, berth allocation, quay crane assignment, quay crane scheduling, container storage space allocation, container location assignment, retrieval, and premarshalling, as well as resource scheduling and terminal logistics in general. Solution methods includ...

Intermodal terminals are important facilities in the container transport network, providing an exchange of containers between road and rail transport. Numerous factors can affect throughput in such highly integrated systems. These include numbers and types of equipment, physical layout, storage capacity and operating strategies. This study aims to improve operating strategies by developing an a...

Scenario analysis often is used to determine bottlenecks in multimodal transportation and logistics chains. Bottleneck-analysis itself is a process related approach to identify shortages in multimodal transportation and logistics supply chains, and concerned with analysis of resource planes, optimization of multimodal transportation chains, consideration of timeliness and concurrency using reso...

One of the most important concerns of reverse logistics network design is to locate interacting facilities in an efficient and cost effective manner, which forms a typical hierarchical system with multiple layer configuration. Considering the hierarchical relationship and flow of waste among the different facility types, both single-flow pattern and multi-flow pattern are discussed in this pape...