Given the impact of transportation costs on both supplier selection and inventory replenishment decisions in today’s enterprises, this article addresses both problems simultaneously by proposing a mixed integer nonlinear programming model to properly allocate order quantities to the selected set of suppliers while taking into account the purchasing, holding and transportation costs under suppli...

INTRODUCTION The freight transportation industry is a major source of employment and supports the economic development of the country. However, freight transportation is also a disturbing activity, due to congestion and environmental nuisances, which negatively affects the quality of life, in particular in urban areas. Both the new trends in retail and commerce organization and the technologica...

During the past two years, traditional freight transportation intermediaries, which include freight forwarders, brokers and third party logistics providers have been joined by a large number of new intermediaries. The main drivers of the development of these new companies are advances in information and communications technologies, the development of web-based or on-line freight transportation ...

Recently, Northeast Asia has become one of the three largest trade areas, covering approximately 30% of the total trade volume of the world. However, the distribution facilities are saturated due to the increase in the transportation volume within the area and with the European countries. In order to accommodate the increase of the transportation volume, the transportation networking with the m...

The Transportation Research Forum, founded in 1958, is an independent, nonprofit organization of transportation professionals who conduct, use, and benefit from research. Its purpose is to provide an impartial meeting ground for carriers, shippers, government officials, consultants, university researchers, suppliers, and others seeking exchange of information and ideas related to both passenger...

Although many have advocated a systems approach in road transportation, this view has not meaningfully penetrated road safety research, practice or policy. In this study, a systems theory-based approach, Rasmussens's (1997) risk management framework and associated Accimap technique, is applied to the analysis of road freight transportation crashes. Twenty-seven highway crash investigation repor...

This paper focuses on Intermodal Freight Transportation broadly defined as a chain made up of several transportation modes that are more or less coordinated and interact in intermodal terminals to ensure door-to-door service. The goal of the chapter is to present intermodal transportation from both the supplier and the carrier perspectives, and identify important issues and challenges in design...

The Transportation Research Forum, founded in 1958, is an independent, nonprofit organization of transportation professionals who conduct, use, and benefit from research. Its purpose is to provide an impartial meeting ground for carriers, shippers, government officials, consultants, university researchers, suppliers, and others seeking exchange of information and ideas related to both passenger...