scholarly journals A city logistics system for long distance freight transport provisioning

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Russo ◽  
C. Rindone ◽  
P. D’Agostino ◽  
C. Lanciano ◽  
T. Scattarreggia
Keyword(s):  
Freight Transport ◽  
City Logistics ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Logistics System

scholarly journals Identification of key target markets for intermodal freight transport solutions in South Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joubert Van Eeden ◽  
Jan Havenga
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Long Distance Transport ◽  
Freight Logistics ◽  
Segmentation Approach ◽  
Role Players ◽  
Growth Initiative ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Distance Transport

The Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA) identified South Africa's freight logistics challenges as among the key binding constraints on the country's growth aspirations. The research presented here points to the structural imbalance between road and rail freight transport as one of the key contributors to this state of affairs. Most long-distance corridor transport has been captured by road. However, long-distance transport is a market segment that is very suitable for intermodal transportation : rail is utilised for the high-density, long-distance component and road for the feeder and distribution services at the corridor end points. A market segmentation approach is developed to identify the corridors and industries that are natural candidates for such solutions, thereby paving the way for role-players and stakeholders to initiate a dialogue on the development of appropriate solutions.

The two-echelon city logistics system with on-street satellites

2020 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 105577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongqi Li ◽  
Yinying Liu ◽  
Kaihang Chen ◽  
Qingfeng Lin
Keyword(s):  
City Logistics ◽  
Logistics System

scholarly journals Investigating the implementation of potential strategies for enhancing urban mobility and a city logistics system on the island of Corfu

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Morfoulaki ◽  
K. Kotoula ◽  
G. Mirovali ◽  
K. Chrysostomou ◽  
A. Stathacopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
City Logistics ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Logistics System

scholarly journals Analysis on the Integration Path of “One Belt And One Road” International Railway Transportation Rules

2021 ◽  
Vol 261 ◽  
pp. 03017
Author(s):  
Ruiqi Guo ◽  
Shuyin Zhang ◽  
Zhuangzhi Zhang ◽  
Kunmin Wang ◽  
Yinghui Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Railway Transportation ◽  
Dispute Settlement Mechanism ◽  
Logistics System ◽  
Railway Freight ◽  
The Status ◽  
Settlement Mechanism ◽  
Railway Freight Transport

With the rapid growth of Sino-European international trade and the ongoing development of “One Belt And One Road”, it can be predicted that the status of railway transportation in the international logistics system will be greatly enhanced, which urges us to further study the rules of international railway freight transportation. At present, the pattern of the rules system of international freight transport by railway is the two conventions of the international cargo association and the international cargo contract. In addition, the existing rules system of freight transport by railway in China also has some problems such as being too administrative, which needs to be reformed urgently. By comparing the contents of the two conventions of international railway freight transport and listing the possible conflicts in the substantive laws of various countries involved in the conventions, this paper designs a set of dispute settlement mechanism for “One Belt And One Road” railway transport, and puts forward some suggestions on the integration of the rules of “One Belt And One Road” international railway freight transport.

scholarly journals Novel Spherical Fuzzy MARCOS Method for Assessment of Drone-Based City Logistics Concepts

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Milovan Kovač ◽  
Snežana Tadić ◽  
Mladen Krstić ◽  
Mouhamed Bayane Bouraima
Keyword(s):  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
City Logistics ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
Logistics System ◽  
Transportation Mode ◽  
Fuzzy Environment ◽  
Final Score ◽  
Delivery Vehicles ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

Technological innovations from the last few years, in the combination with city logistics (CL) initiatives, make the definition of novel, complex, sustainable CL solutions possible. Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) as a technology attracted lots of attention in the literature. Various researches focused on different drone-based delivery approaches, but there are only a few articles dealing with drones as the elements of complex CL concepts. The goal of this paper is to evaluate different drone-based CL concepts. Based on the existing ideas of drone application in delivery, the main group of CL concepts and their variants are defined, which represents the main contribution of the article. The evaluation and ranking of concepts are performed from the aspect of all CL stakeholders and the defined set of criteria by applying measurement of alternatives and ranking according to compromise solution (MARCOS) multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) method in spherical fuzzy environment, which represents another contribution of the article. The results indicate that the potentially best CL concept, with the final score of 0.408, is the one that refers to the transformation of the logistics system into a two-echelon system with the implementation of micro-consolidation centers (MCCs), in which the delivery of goods to MCCs is realized with rail transportation mode and the last delivery phase with drones. It is followed by the concepts that imply MCCs, and rail transportation in the function of mobile depots for drone launching and MCCs and ground delivery vehicles (GDVs), with the final scores of 0.395 and 0.390, respectively.

scholarly journals Multi-objective optimization model for planning metro-based underground logistics system network: Nanjing case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Xiliang Sun ◽  
Wanjie Hu ◽  
Xiaolong Xue ◽  
Jianjun Dong
Keyword(s):  
Programming Model ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Environmental Cost ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Logistics System ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Good Ability

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Utilizing rail transit system for collaborative passenger-and-freight transport is a sustainable option to conquer urban congestion. This study proposes effective modeling and optimization techniques for planning a city-wide metro-based underground logistics system (M-ULS) network. Firstly, a novel metro prototype integrating retrofitted underground stations and newly-built capsule pipelines is designed to support automated inbound delivery from urban logistics gateways to in-city destinations. Based on four indicators (i.e. unity of freight flows, regional accessibility, environmental cost-saving, and order priority), an entropy-based fuzzy TOPSIS evaluation model is proposed to select appropriate origin-destination flows for underground freight transport. Then, a mixed integer programming model, with a well-matched solution framework combining multi-objective PSO algorithm and A* algorithm, are developed to optimize the location-allocation-routing (LAR) decisions of M-ULS network. Finally, real-world simulation based on Nanjing metro case is conducted for validation. The best facility configurations and flow assignments of the three-tier M-ULS network are reported in details. Results confirm that the proposed algorithm has good ability in providing high-quality Pareto-optimal LAR decisions. Moreover, the Nanjing M-ULS project shows strong economic feasibility while bringing millions of Yuan of annual external benefit to the society and environment.</p>

scholarly journals A heavy goods vehicle fleet forecast for South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan H. Havenga ◽  
Phillippus P.T. Le Roux ◽  
Zane P. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Freight Transport ◽  
Modal Shift ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Forecast Period ◽  
Future Possibility ◽  
Road Freight ◽  
Vehicle Fleet ◽  
Road Corridors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Country Specific

Purpose: To develop and apply a methodology to calculate the heavy goods vehicle fleet required to meet South Africa’s projected road freight transport demand within the context of total surface freight transport demand.Methodology: Total freight flows are projected through the gravity modelling of a geographically disaggregated input–output model. Three modal shift scenarios, defined over a 15-year forecast period, combined with road efficiency improvements, inform the heavy goods vehicle fleet for different vehicle types to serve the estimated future road freight transport demand.Findings: The largest portion of South Africa’s high and growing transport demand will remain on long-distance road corridors. The impact can be moderated through the concurrent introduction of domestic intermodal solutions, performance-based standards in road freight transport and improved vehicle utilisation. This presupposes the prioritisation of collaborative initiatives between government, freight owners and logistics service providers.Research limitations: (1) The impact of short-distance urban movements on fleet numbers is not included yet. (2) Seasonality, which negatively influences bi-directional flows, is not taken into account owing to the annual nature of the macroeconomic data. (3) The methodology can be applied to other countries; the input data are however country-specific and findings can therefore not be generalised. (4) The future possibility of a reduction in absolute transport demand through, for example, reshoring have not been modelled yet.Practical implications: Provides impetus for the implementation of domestic intermodal solutions and road freight performance-based standards to mitigate the impact of growing freight transport demand.Societal implications: More efficient freight transport solutions will reduce national logistics costs and freight-related externalities.Originality: Develops a methodology for forecasting the heavy goods vehicle fleet within the context of total freight transport to inform government policy and industry actions.

scholarly journals A Logistics Barometer for South Africa: Towards sustainable freight mobility

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan H. Havenga ◽  
Anneke De Bod ◽  
Zane P. Simpson ◽  
Nadia Viljoen ◽  
David King
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Gravity Modelling ◽  
Transport Costs ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Long Distance Transport ◽  
Distance Transport ◽  
Key Interventions

Background: South Africa has a disproportionately high freight transport demand owing to industrial development far from ports, low domestic beneficiation and improper modal use. Historical freight transport policy supported primary economic development, failing to preempt the changing economic structure and the resulting freight transport needs, resulting in excessive transport costs and externalities.Objectives: To share the macroeconomic freight transport challenges revealed by South Africa’s Logistics Barometer, and to identify key interventions to address these.Method: Freight flows are modelled by disaggregating the national input–output model into 83 commodity groupings and 372 geographical areas, culminating in a 30-year forecast at 5-year intervals for three scenarios, followed by distance-decay gravity modelling to determine freight flows. Logistics costs are calculated by relating these flows to the costs of fulfilling associated logistic functions.Results: Long-distance transport remains the largest general freight typology and is, due to inefficient macro logistics design, extremely costly, both in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic costs.Conclusion: South Africa’s freight task will grow 2.5-fold by 2043. Logistics and externality costs are already untenable at current levels. The development of domestic intermodal solutions will support the drive towards sustainable freight mobility.

scholarly journals South Africa’s freight rail reform: A demand-driven perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan H. Havenga ◽  
Zane P. Simpson ◽  
Anneke De Bod
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Logistics Network ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Standard Management

During the 20th century, freight transport in South Africa was employed to attain politicoeconomic ideals, resulting in the overprotection of rail and overregulation of road transport. Increasing industry pressure, combined with the international deregulation trend, led to deregulation in 1988. Myopia resulted in a rail investment hiatus and exponential growth in high-value, long-distance road transport, causing excessive logistics and externality costs for the country. The aim of this study was to propose a freight rail reform agenda based on, (1) lessons from past freight transport policy efforts and (2) the results of freight transport market segmentation driven by models developed over the past two decades. For the study, freight flows were modelled by disaggregating the national input–output model into 372 origin–destination pairs and 71 commodity groups, followed by distance decay gravitymodelling. Logistics costs were calculated by relating commodity-level freight flows to the costs of fulfilling associated logistical functions. The standard management approach of founding strategy development on market-driven segmentation provides a neutral input to steer rail reform discussions in South Africa. Market segmentation points to a dualistic rail reform agenda, enabling both a profit-driven core and a development-driven branch line network. Freight flow insights are steering the policy reform debate towards long-term freight strategy development and optimal freight logistics network design.

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