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SCGE models are ideal tool for modelling socioeconomic effects in a spatial manner. The current research is investigating this modeling methodology from the view of transportation and investigating the reciprocal cooperation possibilities with ITS systems. In this combined approach the main aims are to identify the different infrastructure and ITS development possibilities and their effects to set...
Since the accession to the EU, Hungary came at huge sum of development resources. These resources should serve the sustainable development of the economy of the country and its people. However, joint planning between land-use planning, regional planning and transportation planning is lacking, disendowing the utilization of possible synergies. LUTI models represent a way to deal with this problem,...
Transportation and land use planners and modelers often use zone systems to take advantage of readily available socio-economic data in their modelling exercises. The most important issue is that analysis zone size is usually large, and therefore, homogeneous or single-type land uses cannot be achieved in many cases. Subsequently, intra-zone travel and mixed activities distribution cannot be captured...
One of the biggest societal challenges is to reduce the impact on the environment [1]. During the last years a lot of digital tools and green apps have been developed in order to help individuals to lower their ecological footprint. These green applications can make use of the specific functionalities of smartphones such as mobility, smartness and connectedness in order to provide better and more...
Within the last 30 years, the European Union has seen a constant increase of freight transportation due to economic growth, change in intercontinental trade and decrease of barriers within the continent. The transport system is struggling in following this trend, showing signs of inefficiency from a socioeconomic point of view. Intermodal transport represents an excellent solution able to support...
Sustainable supply chain planning plays an important role to achieve sustainable operations and logistics. Sustainable supply chain performance is based on economic, environmental and social impacts. In this paper, we present a multiobjective decision making framework for sustainable supply chain optimization. We consider a supply chain network consisting of production plants, distribution centers...
The recent impressive technological advancement in information technology (IT) and as well as in Communication have resulted the drastically improved developments in present systems. Most routine tasks have been automated with the support of advanced technologies. Multi-agent systems (MAS) play a major role in automating the tasks in wide range. In this sense current Ocean-Transportation and Traffic...
Transportation hub networks are important for many large-scale logistics and supply chain systems. Basic hub location models rely on some key assumptions about the transportation cost that limits their practicality We present a new model for hub location and network design that uses fixed and variable transportation costs on all arcs, fixed costs for hubs, and also allows direct arcs. This approach...
In this paper, we propose a two-step bloodmobile collection planning framework. The first step is the annual planning to determine weeks of collection at each mobile site in order to ensure regional self-sufficiency of blood supply. The second step is the detailed weekly planning to determine days of collections at each mobile site and to form corresponding transfusion teams. Only key resource requirements...
The Data-as-a-Service (DaaS, or Data Services) paradigm enables an on-demand, service-based access to data, relying on similar principles to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). DaaS permits centralized data quality management, a uniform view and access to heterogeneous data, and enables exposing a richer, domain-specific data model to users. Within this context, we are witnessing a trend in institutions...
The paper provides a new way to optimize the location of container depots. According to the environmental effect brought by the daily operation of depots, in the optimal model both cost and environmental constraints are taken into account. In order to assess the environmental effect caused by depots, an AHP model was used in the paper. Because of the environmental constraints are considered in the...
With the popularity of bandwidth-intensive mobile applications and mobile devices, the data traffic is increasing fast nowadays. This poses huge burden to the Internet service providers (ISPs) to support such wireless data traffic as they need to invest on developing advance networks, e.g., 4G, or expending the capacity of the current networks in a much faster pace. One way to keep up financing such...
There is a broad variety of ecological audits, which can be considered in production or disposal processes. None of them have been adapted to inventory planning. In this paper an approach of combining sustainability aspects with spare parts ordering will be presented. It is investigated how costs for CO2 emission must change or have to be changed by governments in a way that sustainable spare parts...
Sustainability being the catch word of the day and need of the hour, there is dearth of adequate models to quantify sustainability. Therefore, a general model is developed and with a case analysis the quantifying procedure for sustainability measure has been depicted in this paper. The case is based on Blood bag manufacturing and distribution with respect to industries in Kerala. An MILP model is...
We consider a collaborative logistics problem where a group of shippers in a logistics network, each facing a time-varying deterministic demand, collaboratively make the production schedules together in order to reduce transportation cost by shipment consolidation; a common third-party logistics provider (3PL) is hired by them to carry the shipments, which offers incremental discounts to large-load...
Freight and passenger carriers deploy large hub-and-spoke transportation networks to provide efficient service between many origins and many destinations. These networks use hub facilities that provide a connecting, sorting and/or consolidation function designed to concentrate flows on the inter-hub links to exploit the strong economies of scale in transportation. Yet examination of the optimal solutions...
Collaborative supply chains have become an important element for recent years for many companies to improve their supply chain efficiency. This paper reviews the literature on operation research tools and methods for collaboration in supply chain. First, optimization methods for the collaborative supply chain are presented for both vertical and horizontal collaboration. In horizontal collaboration,...
In this work, we show that supply chain design models should evolve to consider the impacts of supply chain design decisions on the environmental performance of output products. We then develop a supply chain design model where a single output product is sold by the firm and the demand of this product is not an input parameter but depends on its greenness. In addition, the greenness of the output...
Ecology and resource efficiency have achieved high relevance in industry, not only due to their economic effects. Thus, logistics planning is required to contribute to “green” initiatives. However, it still lacks appropriate methods and tools. Simulation represents a well-accepted method in logistics planning, for it can handle dynamics, stochastic effects and a high degree of complexity. In the context...
The interconnectedness of different actors in the global freight transportation industry has rendered such a system as a large complex system where different sub-systems are interrelated. On such a system, policy-related-exploratory analyses which have predictive capacity are difficult to perform. Although there are many global simulation models for various large complex systems, there is unfortunately...
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