... highlights the interplay of supply-side and demand-side factors that help to explain a nuanced perspective of the workforce composition and discusses potential policies to increase the number of female drivers. Transportation Trucking industry Truck driver shortage Gender Occupational preferences...

...Dr Shong-lee Ivan Su; Nyoman Pujawan; Mansur Maturidi Arief; Benny Tjahjono; Duangpun Kritchanchai Purpose – In transportation and distribution systems, the shipment decisions, fleet capacity, and storage capacity are interrelated in a complex way, especially when the authors take into account...

..., extended supply chains that explicitly include transportation and suppliers, contingency factors, and new perspectives such as facility roles within production and distribution networks. Originality/value – This paper is to the author’s knowledge the first broad review that investigates the design...

... Transportation Although the demand for time‐sensitive air cargo is becoming a major issue, particularly with increasing congestion in the airways, especially with increasing congestion in the air network (Azadian et al., 2012 ; D'Este, 1996 ; Li et al., 2006), airlines cannot...

... is the application of WSN in an actual supply chain of chilled cod transported from Iceland to Europe, which has relevance in assisting management decision making in the supply chain to prevent losses of quality and minimize waste. Originality/value – Failure to maintain a low temperature occurs frequently...

...Fredrik Eng‐Larsson; Christofer Kohn Purpose A commonly suggested measure to make logistics greener is a shift to intermodal road‐rail transportation. Most research addresses the issue from the carrier's perspective, arguing for ways to improve the service production to better fit the shippers...

...Jacques Colin; Jean‐Marie Boussier; Tatiana Cucu; Luminita Ion; Dominique Breuil Purpose This paper claims that the parking policy is one of the most obvious tools for reducing traffic congestion, pollutant emissions and conflicts between transportation network users. The purpose of this paper...

...Mary Margaret Rogers; William L. Weber Purpose The purpose of this paper is to model the tradeoffs among fatalities, CO₂ emissions and value generated by the truck transportation portion of supply chains with the goal of determining if efforts to reduce CO₂ emissions increase...

... represents the first development of a voluntary compliance model that is applied to the proposed EOBR mandate. The deployment of this voluntary compliance model may lead to greater compliance rates. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Transportation Road safety Communication technologies...

... minimization of total logistics costs (inventory plus transportation). The paper aims to answer the following research question: given the environmental implications of vehicle emissions as a function of load weight, are the familiar SCL policies still optimal? Design/methodology/approach Nonlinear...

...Gino Marchet; Alessandro Perego; Sara Perotti Purpose Companies in the freight transportation industry can currently make use of an increasing number of applications based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve the performance of their processes. Although these applications...

...Gyongyi Kovacs; Karen Spens; Daniel Ekwall Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyze and explain why cargo theft continues to occur in the transport network despite all implemented countermeasures. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on a logical deductive hypothesis using...

...Gyongyi Kovacs; Karen Spens; Jörn Schönberger; Herbert Kopfer Purpose The coping of demand oscillation is an important challenge in dynamic transport planning. A reliable request fulfillment must be provided even if the number of incoming requests temporarily climbs over the expected demand...

... Technology Transportation Supply chain management Human resources The second section, Complexity in Transportation, in a departure from the macro vision established in the first section, delves into the specific issues of intermodal routing, ocean container storage at ports with active...

... measures. Practical implications Facility design decisions for the storage of inbound materials should carefully consider the impact of storage space on transportation and logistics costs. Originality/value This problem occurs in a number of different industrial applications while most...

... al. (1996) . The objective of horizontal cooperation in logistics is to improve service, efficiencies, and costs associated with the transport and delivery process (Esper and Williams, 2003) thus rendering it an example of collaborative transportation management. Horizontal cooperation...

...Britta Gammelgaard; Remko van Hoek; Irina Gribkovskaia; Bjørn O. Gullberg; Karl J. Hovden; Stein W. Wallace Purpose The value chain of the Norwegian meat production industry has recently been through major structural changes resulting in increased flows and transportation needs at all levels...

... throughout the analysis later on. Sjöstedt (1996) has worked out a model of transportation and logistics system, both for freight and passenger movement. In the freight model, four different entities or components are identified: goods, vehicles, facilities and infrastructure. This model is shown...

... the key logistics cost items, but also suggests a way of quantifying each of the cost elements. The computational part of the framework can be easily implemented on spreadsheets and offers substantial flexibility to accommodate assessment of various transportation alternatives and sensitivity analysis...

...Huu‐Phuong Ta; Hwee‐Ling Choo; Chee‐Chuong Sum In recent years, many foreign firms have flocked to China (People’s Republic of China) to take advantage of the opportunities in the large market. However, some of these firms have faced logistical problems in transporting and distributing their goods...