Contextual Factors of Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practices in the Oil and Gas Industry

Strategic Modeling of Global Container Transport Networks: Exploring the future of port-hinterland and maritime container transport networks

Uncertainties in future global trade flows due to changes in trade agreements, transport technologies or sustainability policies, will affect the patterns of global freight transport and, as a consequence, also affect the demand for major freight transport infrastructures such as ports and hinterland networks. Policy makers face the challenge of...

Synchronization Control of Perturbed Passenger and Freight Operations

Transport networks are operated under a pre-designed plan to carry out the trans- portation tasks. Perturbations can inevitably arise exogenously or endogenously, and cause disturbances to the transit of passengers or the delivery of freights. A transitional plan is needed to deal with the perturbations and accomplish the trans- port tasks. The...

On the Demand for Flexible and Responsive Freight Transportation Services

Several innovations during the last decades have impacted freight transportation as one of the major drivers of global economic development. Both demand and supply of freight transportation services have been transformed through major recent logistics’ innovations such as globalization dynamics, freight network integration, mass-individualized...

Factors influencing Physical Distribution Structure Design

This thesis studies the factors that influence physical distribution structure design. Distribution Structure Design (DSD) concerns the spatial layout of the distribution channel as well as the location(s) of logistics facilities. Despite the frequent treatment of DSD in supply chain handbooks, an empirically validated conceptual framework of...

The Future of Ports in the Physical Internet

Freight transport and logistics (FTL) produce around 15% of the world’s GDP and account for approximately 10% of finished product costs on average. However, through its contribution to the carbon footprint and traffic congestion, today’s FTL operations are often considered to be non-sustainable from an economic, environmental, and societal...

Data-Driven Modelling of Routing and Scheduling in Freight Transport

This dissertation includes initial steps towards introducing a data-driven integrated logistics and traffic modelling framework. The main objective is to unravel the complex interaction between freight transport and traffic systems and to incorporate this knowledge into measures for improving the performance of traffic and logistics operations....

Cooperation between Vessel Service Providers for Port Call Performance Improvement

Ports are vital for maritime logistics. With the growth of maritime traffic, ports, and their actor organizations have faced rising pressure. Improving port call performance, to accommodate more vessels in shorter times, is now on top of the agenda for many ports. The performance of ports in offering their vessels services can improve by...

On-trip Behavior of Truck Drivers on Freeways: New mathematical models and control methods

Congestion, a frequent problem on freeways, is often considered a major challenge for the operations of road freight transport. Trucks, the main choice for road freight, not only suffer from congestion but they also contribute to it. Consequently, billions of dollars are lost worldwide in trucking operations, which also impedes economic growth...