C. Barnhart and G. Laporte (Eds.)‚ Handbook in OR & MS‚ Vol. 14 Copyright © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0507(06)14004-9 Chapter 4 Maritime Transportation Marielle Christiansen Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management‚ Norwegian University of Science and Technology‚ Trondheim‚ Norway Department of Applied Economics and Operations Research‚ SINTEF Technology and Society‚ Trondheim‚ Norway E-mail: Marielle.Christiansen@iot.ntnu.no Kjetil Fagerholt
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Introduction Transnet is the largest and most crucial part of the freight logistics chain that delivers goods to each and every South African. Every day Transnet delivers thousands of tons of goods around South Africa‚ through its pipelines and both to and from its ports. It moves that cargo on to ships for export while it unloads goods from overseas. Transnet is fully owned by the South African government but operates as a corporate entity aimed at both supporting and contributing to the country’s
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Multimodal Transportation in India‚ China‚ Australia‚ USA and Europe MULTI MODAL TRANSPORTATION Multimodal transportation is the movement of cargo from the point of origin to the final destination‚ by using two or more modes of transport. Multimodal transportation describes a shipment that takes several means of transportation – rail‚ road‚ ocean‚ air – from its point of departure to its point of destination. The concept of international multimodal transport covers the door-to-door movement
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OF TRANSPORTATION IN NIGERIAN SOCIETY ABDULKAREEM Y. A. ABSTRACT. Transportation is the basis for economic‚ social and political development in most societies as it exhibits a close relationship to the style and quality of living of the society. Transportation plays an important role in the day-to -day activities of the society. Some of the roles it plays in our societies are the subject of this paper. This paper therefore attempts to illustrate the roles and impacts of transportation in
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growing of economy in the world‚ the transportation of dangerous goods has significant growth. For the increasing of transportation of dangerous goods in the world‚ it become very important to involve in the supply chain understand for the transportation‚ storage and handle dangerous goods in order to reduce accidents (ASEAN 2011). Carriage of dangerous goods cannot treat as normal goods (non-dangerous goods). The difference is the risk of leakage during transportation‚ it will lead to the loss of human
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global market for intelligent transportation systems is expected to reach USD 38.68 billion by 2020‚ according to a new study by Grand View Research‚ Inc. Growing demand for optimizing fuel consumption and reducing emissions is expected to be the key driving force for the market. ITS aids in reducing incidents such as road accidents and boost safety‚ which is estimated to positively impact demand over the next six years. Increasing need for enhancing existing transportation networks coupled with demand
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construction of the Keystone pipeline. The first factor to take into consideration is that the construction of the Keystone pipeline will create an opening of 42‚100 jobs during construction and 50 permanent jobs. It will also contribute to keeping oil refinery jobs. Many environmentalists however tend to oppose this statement by arguing that more jobs will be created when using renewable energy instead‚ such as solar power. Another argument that tends to go against the Keystone pipeline is that it may impact
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chain management is to deliver the right goods to the right place at the right time and at the same time to maintain cost efficiency. Thus transportation plays significant role of interlink among all other elements of supply chain which‚ cooperating‚ gives result in the form of converting resources and materials into consumer goods. The ability of any transportation system to return and deliver items on a timely basis is equally important and ties into a company’s overall strategy of time-based competition
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Sonia Pandya Introduction to PPPH Professor Orin Puniello Final Paper May 5‚ 2014 Transportation Policy and the Transportation Funding Issue The roads‚ railroads‚ bridges‚ and public transportation systems are all integral parts of the United States; without them there would be numerous predicaments in terms of mobility and the ability to facilitate commerce and shipping. Transportation policy pertains to the development of constructs that are set to achieve certain objectives in
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Research Question: What is the “school-to-prison pipeline‚” and what steps have various reform groups taken to halt the funneling of students into the criminal justice system in major U.S. cities over the past five years? Relevance: The school-to-prison pipeline plagues schools and youth across the country‚ specifically minority and disabled students in urban areas. Due to policies employed in elementary and secondary schools across the United States‚ students are funneled directly from
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