This research study presents a comprehensive model for selection of decisive criteria to develop and integrate a fourth-party logistics concept in humanitarian logistics sector. The model is based on applying an analytic network process for determination of final criteria selection for a fourth-party logistics solution. The analytic network process is used to solve complex multiple qualitative ...

Abstract Reducing the system failure rate of logistics service supply chain (LSSC) is the basic guarantee and supporting conditions of LSSC system operational stability. The paper, regarding the automobile logistics service supply chain system composed by logistics service integrators, logistics service providers and car manufacturer as the research object, sets up the fault tree model of the a...

The control of transport is a very current preoccupation in a context of sustainable development. Nuisances associated to Urban Freight Transport (UFT) force politicians to propose measures relevant to sustainable development of the city. Nevertheless they should keep in mind the efficiency of UFT which renders the implementation of new projects quite difficult. We propose to transpose systemic...

Sustainability has become an important objective of city logistics management. Smart city, being a technology and data driven paradigm for city’s sustainable development, entailed new research opportunities from different perspectives. It is foreseeable that smart will keep evolving in the domain logistics, which plays key role this game changing evolution. Recent field characterised by interdi...

There is growing evidence that the somewhat apocalyptic nature of the commentary on page 1 164 is being considered most seriously by the present administration in the United States and by most of the other nations in the world. John Cairns, the titular spokesperson for ecology in Environmental Health Perspectives since the inception of the monthly journal in April 1993, delivers a tough message...

The circulation of agricultural products is more complex and uncertainty than that of industrial products. The distribution channels of agricultural products are quite unique. The agricultural products logistics directly affect the efficiency of china’s economy since agriculture is still main part of the economy. At the same time, with the development of information technology, e-business has a...

the notion of sustainable development has rapidly gained considerable attention since the lastdecades of the twentieth century. it has become a locus for global paradigm shift on environment and development issues particularly after rio conference in 1992. the comparative analysis of agenda 21 and major un documents, mdg, and rio+20 as well as some major sources are made to provide a context fo...

The product lifestyle design is necessary sustainable growth accomplishment, enforced by the enacted eco-regulations. The paper discusses the incumbent restructuring of the manufacturing companies, recalling the innovation at the design phase, by effective product-process-environment-enterprise, 2P2E, integration, supported by suitably detailed modelling and simulation features, M&SF, leading t...