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product to the customers. Several transportation channels are available between nodes in each echelon, with different … transportation costs and times. The decision variables are the opening of distribution centers from a discrete set, the selection of … the transportation channels, and the flow between facilities. The problem is modeled as a bi-objective mixed …
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. The buyer faces stepwise freight costs in inbound transportation and a hybrid wholesale price schedule given by a …
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MRP Theory has been developed during the last 25 years for capturing processes concerning multi-level, multi-stage production-inventory systems in a compact way. Input–output analysis has been used to describe structures, and Laplace transforms to describe the timing relations. This theory has...
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This paper is concerned with the implications of public–private partnership agreements for the execution of expansion options in road infrastructure. More specifically, it analyzes the expansion of an existing two-lane road in Sweden, and examines the real options created by an intermediate...
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Speed limits had been centralized at the federal level since 1974, until decisions were devolved to the states in 1995. However, the centralization debate has reemerged in recent years. This paper conducts the first econometric analysis of the determinants of speed limit laws and State reactions...
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Extensive utilisation of logging residues, straw, and energy crops will lead to short transportation distances and thus … low transportation costs. The average distance of transportation of biomass to a large-scale conversion plant, suitable … production. With present production conditions, resulting in a biomass potential of 220 PJ/yr, the transportation distance is …
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information used, the utility of Internet/travel agencies in planning travel trip activities, preferred means of transportation … when planning a trip. Young tourists prefer cars and planes as means of transportation for a trip and hotels and …
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In a context of unregulated practice, strategic environmental assessment (SEA) contribution to environmentally sound decision-making may be difficult to gauge. Recent Brazilian experience, where there is no legal requirement for SEA, was studied by reviewing cases selected by considering...
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This paper tests the external spillover effects of the transportation on China’s economic growth from the theoretical … positive externality in the transportation. After that, the authors collect the data of the 28 provinces in China from 1985 to … transportation do exist; (2) From 1985 to 2006, the transportation contributed 24.8 billion yuan to China's GDP every year: in this …
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This article discusses some key issues concerning the liability concept of air carriers for the damages in the international air transport of passengers. The author referred to the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air (hereinafter: the Warsaw...
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