transportation is by people and for them. it is a process of providing mobility and accessibility for people both as passengers and as consumers of the goods. therefore it is true when today there is an emphasis on the considering transportation the most influential development in every society. regional development cannot properly be happened without enough transportation infrastructure and qu...

The Paper gives an overview about advanced wireless communication, positioning and navigation services for telematic applications in particular those ones connected with freight transportation processes and management of commercial vehicle operations. The challenges and restrictions of different radio technologies are discussed. A telematic solution for freight wagon tracking is presented and i...

This Chapter focuses on Intermodal Freight Transportation, broadly defined as the transportation of a load from its origin to its destination by a sequence of at least two transportation modes, the transfer from one mode to the next being performed at an intermodal terminal. Container-based transportation services are an important part of intermodal transportation and the backbone of internatio...

This report explores pathways to reducing transportation based carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. The goal is to analyze the feasibility of reducing the level of transportation based carbon dioxide emissions in 2050 to 50% of the level they were at in 2005. Emissions have been steadily rising over the past century, and if left uncurbed, will have a negative effect on the quality of ...

We study the pricing problem for a third-party-logistics (3PL) provider that provides warehousing and transportation services. When customers arrive at the 3PL provider, they specify the delivery dates for their freight, and before the specified delivery dates, their freight is stocked in the 3PL provider’s warehouse. We propose a dynamic pricing strategy (DPS) and develop a stochastic-nonlinea...

The uniform delivered price is the price contains mill price and transportation cost. Although the firms bear the transportation cost, practically the firms would pass all or part of transportation cost through to consumers. The research finds that, as the demand curve slopes downward or there exists competitors or potential competitors, the U.D.P. firms neither can pass all of transportation c...

Intermodal freight transportation is concerned with shipping of commodities from their origin to destination using combinations of transport modes. Traditional logistics models have concentrated on minimizing transportation costs by appropriately determining the service network and the transportation routing. This paper considers an intermodal transportation problem with an explicit considerati...

There is a relatively small amount of research covering urban freight movements. Most research dealing with the subject of urban mobility focuses on passenger vehicles, not commercial vehicles hauling freight. However, in many ways, urban freight transport contributes to congestion, air pollution, noise , accident and more fuel consumption which raises logistic costs, and hence the price of pro...

Continuous real-time monitoring of shipment cost and delivery time is increasingly used by companies to reduce transportation costs while avoiding costly delays or disruptions. Recourse refers to the ability of the shipper to update his/her routing strategy depending on information obtained about the state of the network disruptions. This research proposes an adaptive routing policy that will h...