Container movement involves several stakeholders where each group is focused on achieving its own objectives. By actively considering the perspective of different maritime stakeholders, this paper identifies a set of implementation strategies and prioritizes them to successfully implement an ‘Inland-Depots-for-Empty-Containers’ (IDEC) system in a region. It builds on the authors’ earlier work t...

Graphs are very important mathematical structures used in many applications, one of which is transportation science. When dealing with transportation networks, one deals not only with the network structure, but also with information related to the utilization of the elements of the network, which can be shown using flow and origin-destination matrices. This paper extends an algebraic model used...

Transportation planning is an important part in the development of a region. An effective transport system and associated urban forms will improve the economic and social opportunities. Accessibility and mobility are the two main parameters which contribute to the effective transportation system. In this paper, the accessibility to the public transportation system is identified for the selected...

In Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is one of key wireless technologies, which helps in managing road safety, traffic efficiency, fleet, logistics and transportation. The objective of this paper is to give an overview of the implication of different technologies and placement of VANET in transportation and specifically in logistics. We provide researchers wi...

We continue our investigation on the transportation-information inequalities WpI for a symmetric markov process, introduced and studied in [14]. We prove that WpI implies the usual transportation inequalities WpH, then the corresponding concentration inequalities for the invariant measure μ. We give also a direct proof that the spectral gap in the space of Lipschitz functions for a diffusion pr...

This paper offers a critical interpretation of the EU’s recent Maritime Security Strategy (MSS) of 2014, making distinctions between hard and soft conceptions of maritime security. The theoretical approach employed invokes the ‘EU as neo-medieval empire’ (Bull 1977: 254-255; Rennger 2006; Zielonka 2006). By this account, the main objectives of EU maritime strategy are stability and encouragemen...