Alstom signed a contract to supply 130 Coradia Stream High Capacity electric double-deck trains Landesanstalt Schienenfahrzeuge Baden-Württemberg (SFBW) for the network in Germany. In addition delivery of trains, was also contracted provide full-service maintenance period 30 years ensure trains’ seamless availability. Furthermore, reserves an option order up 100 additional trains. The total val...

The concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the earth's atmosphere is creating changes in the world's climate. Reducing GHG emissions has become a national and international priority. Combusting carbon in the transportation sector contributes more than 28 percent of total U.S. GHG emissions (EPA, 2006). Within the transportation sector, light duty vehicles comprise about 60 percent of the GH...

We consider the following transportation problem with both random and fuzzy factors. There exist m supply points and n demand points. For each route between supply point and demand point, unit transportation cost is a random variable according to a normal distribution and existence possibility denoting the preference choosing this route is attached. The probability that the total transportation...