In order to obtain the biggest economic benefits, large shipping firms widely use hub-and-spoke network operate ships. The reasonable not only decreases cost of infrastructure construction achieve scale economies, but also be efficient allocate existing resources maritime business. Shipping usually are in pursuit large-scale container ship, leading some blindly upgrade vessels and cause loss pr...

We offer a comprehensive empirical study on hidden-city ticketing (HCT), pricing phenomenon in the airline industry that occurs when fare for nonstop trip from A to B is more expensive than connecting and C. Exploiting unique panel of over 473 thousand fares flights departing between October 1st, 2019 December 31st, 2019, we find HCT depends route competition (both A–B A–C routes), largely last...

Inclement weather at an airline's hub airport can be devastating to that airline's schedule. The repercussions resonate throughout the airline's network as capacity is reduced, connections are missed, and passengers are delayed on a larger scale than during irregular operations at a spoke airport. The main hypothesis behind the work presented in this thesis is that by shifting a small fraction ...

Design of network, through which data, packages or even people can be transported, is an important issue for achieving a desired level of service quality at an acceptable cost. For this purpose, it is possible to design a network comprised of nodes that are connected to each other with dedicated lines. However, this kind of solution will not be cost effective. In order to decrease the total tra...