Today, ridesharing is attracting more and more attention due to its high potential in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions and decreasing the amount of traffic in the streets. The paper extends the earlier presented approach to building sustainable logistics system for ridesharing support based on the idea of smart spaces, where various electronic devices can seamlessly access all required inf...

With increasing globalization and international cooperation, the importance of sustainability management across supply chains has received much attention by companies across various industries. Companies therefore strive to implement effective and integrated sustainable supply chain management initiatives to improve their operational and economic performance while also minimizing unnecessary da...

Courier services form an important sector of urban freight traffic; leading to a daily volume of traffic that is problematic in economic and ecologic respects. New logistic concepts for reducing costs, distances and emissions could improve this situation by increased application of bicycle couriers and bundling of consignments. In this paper we summarise our previous work on the multi-agent-bas...

Background Supply chain management training remains the most critical discipline in building capacity and ensuring competitiveness and sustainability of Africa in the global context. Imperial Logistics continues to play a significant role through the development of our Fast Forward initiative. While ensuring effective operations and best practice, the company further develops sustainable platfo...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been widely used in supporting the logistics management on manufacturing shopfloors where production resources attached with RFID facilities are converted into smart manufacturing objects (SMOs) which are able to sense, interact, and reason to create a ubiquitous environment. Within such environment, enormous data could be collected and used for support...

Logistics is a rapidly expanding industry, and mobility critical to our way of life. At the same time, there are several environmental, societal, economic implications associated with logistics transportation, including pollution, noise, use urban space for transportation infrastructure. Business analytics solutions may help firms operations achieve these targets, while keeping costs down posit...

Being an important aspect of sustainable development, sustainable consumption has attracted great attention among Chinese politicians and academia, and Chinese governments have established policies that encourage sustainable consumption behaviors. However, unsustainable consumption behavior still remains predominant in China. This paper aims to classify consumers with similar traits, in terms o...