In recent years several European municipalities have paired market-based measures with urban distribution centres (UDC) in order to reduce CO2 emissions and make more sustainable urban freight ‡ows. However, UDCs may add reloading costs and extra delivery times which have relevant impact on...

Contracts are used to coordinate disparate but interdependent members of the supply chain. Conflicting objectives of these members and lack of coordination among the members lead to inefficiencies in matching supply with demand. This study reviews different types of contracts and proposes a...

This paper deals with automated guided vehicles (AGVs) which transport containers between the quai and the stack on automated container terminals. The focus is on the assigment of transportation jobs to AGVs within a terminal control system operating in real time. First, we describe a rather...

In this paper, we propose a general model for various scheduling problems that occur in container terminal logistics. The scheduling model consists of the assignment of jobs to resources and the temporal arrangement of the jobs subject to precedence constraints and sequence-dependent setup...

This paper introduces an approach for generating scenarios of sea port container terminals. A scenario consists of arrivals of deep sea vessels, feeder ships, trains, and trucks together with lists of containers to be loaded and unloaded. Moreover, container attributes such as size, empty,...

Logistics section is one of the most important industrial sections to contribute to European economy. To improving efficiency and energy efficient of logistics, European Commission call new research theme "smart, green and integrated transport" in its H2020 program. The paper presents a version...

Purpose: We argue that the productive analyses of logistics alliances in the literature have led to a multitude of heterogeneous contributions. These should be consolidated and systematized in order to (a) synthesize the existing findings in a meaningful way and guide future research for...

Für eine weltwirtschaftlich so stark verflochtene Wirtschaft wie die deutsche spielt die Logistik eine wichtige Rolle; rund ein Viertel des in Europa erzielten Umsatzes entfiel 2013 auf deutsche Unternehmen. Die Zahl der Beschäftigten in der Logistik lag bei gut 2 Millionen. Gemessen daran ist...

Qualification, competence, misfit, logistics, human resource management. - Qualification and competence requirements in logistics companies are influenced by internal and external processes of change. To stay competitive and reactive to the market, those companies have to face the problem of...