Consolidation of freight and merging operations are essential for transportation companies
to reduce costs and improve the level of service provided to customers. Such operations …

Six principles for the design of transport systems are described, including direct link,
corridor, hub‐and‐spoke, connected hubs, static routes, and dynamic routes. The designs …

To provide public logistics services, Supply Hub in Industrial Park (SHIP) is facing
challenges on getting real-time interactions with its member enterprises, and real-time …

Cloud manufacturing is an emerging service-oriented manufacturing paradigm that
integrates and manages distributed manufacturing resources through which complex …

In this paper, we conduct a systematic literature review to examine several logistics network
designs and evaluate their performance with respect to cost, quality, delivery, flexibility, and …

This thesis deals with horizontal cooperation in transport and logistics. It contains a
comprehensive discussion of the available academic literature on this topic, many practical …

In light of the rapid development in the e-commerce sector and the increasingly popular
demand for same day delivery, this study evaluates the performance of an on-demand same …

The vehicle routing problem with cross-dock selection is a variant of the vehicle routing
problem containing spatial and load synchronization constraints by which products are …

One of the most important problem in supply chain management is the design of distribution
systems which can reduce the transportation costs and meet the customer's demand at the …

This paper presents a tour-chain-based approach to modeling urban commercial vehicle
daily activity patterns. A daily tour chain refers to a sequence of daily tours made by a …