During the last 50 years, numbers and sizes of oil spills have been significantly reduced through prevention. But still occur, it is critical to prepare for these events planning exercises. Operational decisions are designed expedite cleanup minimize overall impacts, yet they often involve complex trade-offs between a multitude competing interests. It imperative apply best technology science wh...

Purpose: Multimodal freight transport developed in the transportation sector as an alternative to unimodal transport faced with the challenges brought by the growing global demand for transporting goods. Multimodal transport is the transportation of goods using at least two modes of transport, usually door-to-door. The common transport modes include railways, maritime routes, and the roads. Whe...

LIKE MANY PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS, POLICE SERVICES HAVE HAD to pay increasing attention to strategic planning in recent years. This has been precipitated by community and government calls for improved accountability, and the accelerating pace of reform within police services. In responding to this need, police services are experiencing many of the problems familiar to large organisations wh...

Geographic information systems (GIS) have numerous applications in human health. This chapter opens with a brief discussion of the three dimensions of decision-making in organizations — operational control, management control, and strategic planning. These dimensions are then discussed in terms of three case studies: a practiceimprovement case study under operational control, a service-planning...

The scenario of isolated companies competing with each other has evolved to a holistic vision, where collaborate and work together maintain supply chain competitiveness. Integrated planning, although challenging, is necessary foster competitive advantage ensure companies' survival in difficult times. Concepts technologies introduced by the Fourth Industrial Revolution support such integrated pl...

The dynamic and non-hierarchical nature of the military domain presents a challenge for traditional supply chain optimization. Flow networks and simulation techniques have been applied to the military distribution problem, but are unable to provide time-definite delivery to customers. Recently, optimization approaches have been independently applied towards strategic and operational levels of p...