The share of intermodal transportation, which is often considered as a sustainable transportation alternative, rather low compared to road transportation. There are several reasons for this situation, including the increased need coordination scheduled transport services and reduced reliability chains in case disruptions. In regard, developing an advanced algorithmic approach can help handle re...

Maritime freight has gained popularity among researchers and practitioners due to its cost efficiency eco-friendly nature. It was initially developed for cargo transfer, but widespread adoption made it the backbone of global economy. Despite favourable nature, some serious negative effects have attracted attention scholars. Therefore, present study reviews extensive literature available on mari...

In most cases, logistical planning tasks are a complex problem that is difficult to solve because of dynamic influences that cannot be foreseen. The concept of autonomous cooperating processes is an approach whereby the logistical objects themselves solve those tasks. Each object in the transport chain (freight, means of transport, warehouse...) is represented by a separate independent software...

This study aims to develop a sustainable freight transportation network considering capacitated cross-docks for minimising the overall supply chain costs, including carbon emission cost. The problem is inspired by major retail company based in India, which would like expand its product portfolio new region. A mathematical model developed minimise total costs encompassing cost, pipeline and reta...

Background: Finding trends in freight transportation activities enables businesses and policy makers to build an understanding of patterns their impact on logistics planning when making investments a region’s infrastructure intermodal transport system. To the best our knowledge, there is limited literature data-driven analysis about mode choices influencing factors Atlantic Canada. Methods: In ...