In rail freight operation, freight cars need to be separated and reformed into new trains at hump yards. The classification procedure is complex and hump yards constitute bottlenecks in the rail freight network, often causing outbound trains to be delayed. One of the problems is that planning for the allocation of tracks at hump yards is difficult, given that the planner has limited resources (...

Abstract We address the stochastic scheduled service network design problem with quality targets and uncertainty on travel times. This important problem, raising in tactical planning process of consolidation-based freight carriers, has been little studied up to now. define considering for on-time operation services delivery demand loads destinations. introduce a two-stage mixed-integer model de...

In the last four decades the container, as an essential part of a unit-load-concept, has scored a great success in international sea freight transportation. With increasing containerization the number of seaport container terminals and competition has increased considerably. One of the success factors of a terminal is related to the time in port for container vessels and the transshipment rates...

Logistics centers are important facilities which served possible transportation methods together and carried out activities in harmony with each other such as transportation, storage, handling, distribution, consolidation, customs clearance, sorting, import, export transit transactions, insurance banking, infrastructure services, consultancy production, etc. Due to the continuous demand for fre...

The maritime supply chain of energy concerns all trips done between ports on the maritime space. The use of this space has in-crease since 1970. This increase is due to the globalization, a strong increase of the demand of energy and freight, containerization of goods and economies of scale (Rodrigue, 2013). Due to the development of maritime transport, a territorialization process appears on m...