The growing progression in the use of containers as standardized charge unity in maritim transport and the tecnological revolution associated to this has involved deep changes in the nature of interport competition. At first, the concept of Hinterland is becoming obsolete because the use of containers provide the intermodality and so remove monopolistic position of ports in his next influence a...

Foraging animals are influenced by the distribution of food resources and predation risk that both vary in space and time. These constraints likely shape trade-offs involving time, energy, nutrition, and predator avoidance leading to a sequence of locations visited by individuals. According to the marginal-value theorem (MVT), a central-place forager must either increase load size or energy con...

Abstract Purpose A fully electrified transport chain offers considerable potential for CO 2 savings. In this paper, we examine the conditions necessary to introduce a electrified, large-scale, high-speed rail freight system in Europe addition passenger trains, aiming shift goods from road rail. We compare novel concept with road-based lorry low-density high value estimate modal 2030. Methods To...

This paper studies multiple cross-dockings where the loads are transferred from origins (suppliers) to destinations (customers) through cross-docking facilities. Products are no longer stored in intermediate depots and incoming shipments are consolidated based on customer demands and immediately delivered to them to their destinations. In this paper, each cross-docking has a covering radius tha...

Introduction In recent years there have been major changes in the composition of cargo to the point where, in Europe, semi-finished products (e.g. car parts) and finished goods represent the greatest transport demand. This type of cargo is typically of lower density and higher value (LDHV) than previous goods and requires faster and more reliable transportation. Currently, LDHV goods are predom...

The Two-Echelon Routing Problem constitutes a class of combinatorial optimization problems with applications in many different fields such as city logistic planning, intermodal transportation, postal and parcel delivery distribution systems and so on. This thesis contains: a survey of the main contributions related to the two-echelon routing, focusing on the Two-Echelon Location Routing Problem...

The paper considers the significance of electronic commerce (e-commerce) for freight transport, logistics and physical distribution, regarding both business to business and business to consumer commerce. The possible implications of e-commerce are analysed in the broader context of structural change, going beyond narrow assessments that overstate the significance of e-commerce and its potential...

Singapore has one of the busiest ports in the world. Ship berthing is one of the problems faced by the planners at the port. In this paper , we study the ship berthing problem. We first provide the problem formulation and study the complexity of the problem with different restrictions. In general, the ship berthing problem is NP-complete, although, some of its variants may be solved quickly. Wh...

Contemporary urbanization patterns around the North Sea can only be understood by looking at their long-term development and studying how these arose evolved over centuries. If we look no further back than Industrial Revolution, get a distorted picture. The fact is that were for most part already established before period, as clearly seen in composite map showing all cities reference years.&#x0...