Freight networks are a case of systems that multiple participants are composing interrelations along the complete supply chain. Their interrelations correspond to alternative behavior, namely, cooperation, non-cooperation and competition, while they are large-scale spatially distributed systems combining multiple means of transportation and the infrastructure and equipment typically utilized fo...

The paper presents a model for the collaboration among independent freight forwarding entities. In the modern highly competitive transportation branch freight forwarders reduce their fulfillment costs by exploiting different execution modes (self-fulfillment and subcontraction). For self-fulfillment they use their own vehicles to execute the requests and for subcontracting they forward the orde...

The Transportation Research Forum, founded in 1958, is an independent, nonprofit organization of transportation professionals who conduct, use, and benefit from research. Its purpose is to provide an impartial meeting ground for carriers, shippers, government officials, consultants, university researchers, suppliers, and others seeking exchange of information and ideas related to both passenger...

We consider the two-level uncapacitated facility location problem with singleassignment constraints (TUFLP-S), a problem that arises in industrial applications in freight transportation and telecommunications. We present a new Lagrangian relaxation approach for the TUFLP-S, based on solving a single-level uncapacitated facility location problem (UFLP) as the Lagrangian subproblem. We also devel...

a r t i c l e i n f o We investigate the role of competitive transport markets in shaping the location of economic activity and the pattern of trade. In our model, carriers supply transport services for shipping manufactured goods, and freight rates are set to clear transport markets. Each carrier must commit to the maximum capacity for a round-trip and thus faces a logistics problem as there a...

From a societal perspective, it is desirable for all transportation users to pay their full social (private and external) costs. We estimate four general types of external costs for intercity freight trucking and compare them with the private costs incurred by carriers. Estimated external costs include: accidents (fatalities, injuries, and property damage); emissions (air pollution and greenhou...

This paper introduces a modelling and distributed simulation platform to be realized as a system of systems in the logistic domain. The presentation of the project context gives a sight onto the current progress of the research in the field of the networked enterprise modelling and in the implementation methods of information systems solutions, integrating the interoperability into the context ...

A systems perspective for regional strategic transportation planning (RSTP) for freight movements involves an understanding of Supply Chain Management (SCM). This thesis argues that private sector freight shippers and carriers do not simply need capacity improvements from the regional transportation system, but also a subtle understanding by public sector planners of their supply chain needs. T...

Ro-Ro transportation refers to a way of maritime transportation that uses Ro-Ro to bring goods and shipment together. Developments of Ro-Ro transport at home and abroad are outlined, and development process of China’s Ro-Ro transport is reviewed. The development and status of Ro-Ro transport of Yangtze River are analyzed in detail. Based on survey research, due to the change of road structure o...

In this paper we present our research works centered on a problematic which attract the attention of many researchers and decision maker, which is the traceability of the product. we are interested more precisely to the traceability in the field of goods transportation, by proposing a modeling approach of the relative data to freight, the result of this modeling, was used in the form of a centr...