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In the global trucking industry, vertical collaboration between shippers and carriers is attained by intermediaries, called brokers. Brokers organize carriers for a shipper in accordance with its quality and price requirements, and support carriers to collaborate horizontally by sharing a large distribution order from a shipper. Brokers also act as trustees, preventing the passing of private information of any party to the others. Despite these benefits, intermediaries in the trucking industry are involved in several sustainability problems, including high costs, high levels of carbon emissions, high percentages of empty miles, low-capacity utilizations, and driver shortages. Several studies have acknowledged the importance of improving collaboration to address these problems. Obviously, the major concern of brokers is not collaboration, but rather to optimize their own gains. This paper investigates the potential of blockchain technology to improve collaboration in the trucking industry, by eliminating brokers while preserving their responsibilities as organizers and trustees. This paper extends the transportation control tower concept from the logistics literature, and presents a system architecture for its implementation through smart contracts on a blockchain network. In the proposed system, the scalability and privacy of trucking operations are ensured through integration with privacy-preserving off-chain computation and storage solutions (running outside of the blockchain). The potential of this design artifact for fostering collaboration in the trucking industry was evaluated by both blockchain technology experts and trucking industry professionals.
Serkan Alacam; Asli Sencer. Using Blockchain Technology to Foster Collaboration among Shippers and Carriers in the Trucking Industry: A Design Science Research Approach. Logistics 2021, 5, 37 .
AMA StyleSerkan Alacam, Asli Sencer. Using Blockchain Technology to Foster Collaboration among Shippers and Carriers in the Trucking Industry: A Design Science Research Approach. Logistics. 2021; 5 (2):37.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSerkan Alacam; Asli Sencer. 2021. "Using Blockchain Technology to Foster Collaboration among Shippers and Carriers in the Trucking Industry: A Design Science Research Approach." Logistics 5, no. 2: 37.
The purpose of the study is to analyze e-government implementation and effectiveness at the municipal level in the vision of information system (IS) integration and to propose a roadmap for an integrated information system (IIS) for municipalities from the citizens’ perspective. Integration models proposed in the literature are reviewed and merged into a more comprehensive model. Based on the proposed model, integration process occurs under four domains: strategic, organizational, logical and physical. Related approaches of hierarchy, structure, direction and extent are analyzed and evaluated for each domain. Then, IS practices for seven different municipalities are examined and compared to each other so as to evaluate the current situation. At the final stage, a practical structural framework is developed and presented. As a result of the longitudinal interviews with Sarıyer Municipality, the general framework and a roadmap for municipalities are put forward. While this roadmap can be extended further by other researchers, it can also act as a base for practitioners to develop integrated information systems (IIS) for citizen services offered local governments.
Meltem Ozturan; Serkan Alacam; Abide Coskun-Setirek; Tugrul Cabir Hakyemez; Hanife Kebabci; Elif Öztürk; Ersan Tasan. A Citizen - Centric Integrated Information System Roadmap for Municipalities. Journal of Public Administration and Governance 2017, 7, 175 .
AMA StyleMeltem Ozturan, Serkan Alacam, Abide Coskun-Setirek, Tugrul Cabir Hakyemez, Hanife Kebabci, Elif Öztürk, Ersan Tasan. A Citizen - Centric Integrated Information System Roadmap for Municipalities. Journal of Public Administration and Governance. 2017; 7 (4):175.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMeltem Ozturan; Serkan Alacam; Abide Coskun-Setirek; Tugrul Cabir Hakyemez; Hanife Kebabci; Elif Öztürk; Ersan Tasan. 2017. "A Citizen - Centric Integrated Information System Roadmap for Municipalities." Journal of Public Administration and Governance 7, no. 4: 175.