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Lori Tavasszy
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM), Delft University of Technology, Jafalaan 5, 2628BX Delft, The Netherlands

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Review
Published: 02 August 2021 in Future Transportation
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Integration of digitalization and automation with logistics systems promotes effective and efficient flow of goods, information, and services, contributing to economic development. The level of implementation of digitalization and automation in low-income countries is still low, however. The aim of this study is to establish which digitalized logistics practices could best be adopted by firms in low-income countries. A systematic literature review was used to identify state-of-the-art digitalization and automation technologies in logistics chains. Criteria for adopting digitalized logistics practices were also identified in the literature review. An expert survey was conducted to identify criteria weights using analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Economic benefit, infrastructure, and affordability were the criteria that were given the highest weights by the experts. Case studies that applied state-of-the-art technologies such as internet of things (IoT), radio frequency identification (RFID), blockchain, big data analytics (BDA), and sensors mainly for traceability, production operation, and warehouse and inventory management were considered as recommended practices. Identification of suitable practices considering the local conditions in low-income countries could help logistics professionals and policymakers adopt enabling technologies in logistics chains.

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Mahlet Tadesse; Girma Gebresenbet; Lorant Tavasszy; David Ljungberg. Assessment of Digitalized Logistics for Implementation in Low-Income Countries. Future Transportation 2021, 1, 227 -247.

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Mahlet Tadesse, Girma Gebresenbet, Lorant Tavasszy, David Ljungberg. Assessment of Digitalized Logistics for Implementation in Low-Income Countries. Future Transportation. 2021; 1 (2):227-247.

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Mahlet Tadesse; Girma Gebresenbet; Lorant Tavasszy; David Ljungberg. 2021. "Assessment of Digitalized Logistics for Implementation in Low-Income Countries." Future Transportation 1, no. 2: 227-247.

Journal article
Published: 16 July 2021 in Transport Policy
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Maritime ports are an integral part of global trade and the supply network system. An upcoming paradigm for innovation in this system is that of the Physical Internet (PI). This highly advanced way of shipping will present a very different logistics environment with respective challenges for maritime ports. For those investing in or operating port systems, it is important to understand whether different service quality aspects will be important in this future system, compared to today. Our paper deals with the port performance evaluation and selection problem. Although it has been studied extensively in a contemporary context, there has been no exploration of the criteria and preferences of decision-makers in the future shipping environment of the PI. Our objective is to define these criteria and explore their weighting in this new context. We propose two distinct autonomous decision-makers for port performance evaluation and selection in the PI: intelligent containers and vessels. We identify future port performance evaluation and selection criteria, and analyse their weighting based on an expert survey, complementing the extant literature on port performance evaluation and selection and the PI. We use the Bayesian Best-Worst Method (BWM) to derive weights for the criteria. We find that, compared to the current port performance evaluation and selection literature, in a first stage in the modelling of intelligent agents’ performance preferences, subtle differences in weights mark the step from the present towards the PI. Partly, this is reassuring for port authorities as they can manage largely the same set of performance indicators to be attractive for both decision-makers. However, the results also show differences between agents, with an increased importance of, in particular, Level of Service, Network Interconnectivity, and Information Systems.

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Patrick B.M. Fahim; Jafar Rezaei; Benoit Montreuil; Lorant Tavasszy. Port performance evaluation and selection in the Physical Internet. Transport Policy 2021, 1 .

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Patrick B.M. Fahim, Jafar Rezaei, Benoit Montreuil, Lorant Tavasszy. Port performance evaluation and selection in the Physical Internet. Transport Policy. 2021; ():1.

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Patrick B.M. Fahim; Jafar Rezaei; Benoit Montreuil; Lorant Tavasszy. 2021. "Port performance evaluation and selection in the Physical Internet." Transport Policy , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 30 June 2021 in Journal of Transport Geography
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Distribution centres are becoming more and more relevant for spatial planning, due to their rapidly increasing size and number. There is little literature, however, that provides a generalized analysis of the size and functional attributes of distribution centres, and none that discusses the relationships between these attributes. Our aim is to fill this gap by providing new evidence and analysis to understand this relationship. We make use of an extensive database of 2888 DCs in the Netherlands to develop a new typology of DCs based on the geographical location of DCs, their functional attributes and client sector characteristics. The analysis shows that the context in which medium sized DCs are operating is more heterogeneous than in the case of very large and small size DCs. This study is a first attempt to analyse this relationship between facility size and functions based on a rich and extensive dataset of large population of DCs. The results can serve as input for further quantitative statistical analysis and international comparison.

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Alexander T.C. Onstein; Ishani Bharadwaj; Lóránt A. Tavasszy; Dick A. van Damme; Abdel el Makhloufi. From XXS to XXL: Towards a typology of distribution centre facilities. Journal of Transport Geography 2021, 94, 103128 .

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Alexander T.C. Onstein, Ishani Bharadwaj, Lóránt A. Tavasszy, Dick A. van Damme, Abdel el Makhloufi. From XXS to XXL: Towards a typology of distribution centre facilities. Journal of Transport Geography. 2021; 94 ():103128.

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Alexander T.C. Onstein; Ishani Bharadwaj; Lóránt A. Tavasszy; Dick A. van Damme; Abdel el Makhloufi. 2021. "From XXS to XXL: Towards a typology of distribution centre facilities." Journal of Transport Geography 94, no. : 103128.

Editorial
Published: 03 May 2021 in Transport Policy
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Hanno Friedrich; Lóránt A. Tavasszy. Modelling logistics for freight transport policy analysis. Transport Policy 2021, 1 .

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Hanno Friedrich, Lóránt A. Tavasszy. Modelling logistics for freight transport policy analysis. Transport Policy. 2021; ():1.

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Hanno Friedrich; Lóránt A. Tavasszy. 2021. "Modelling logistics for freight transport policy analysis." Transport Policy , no. : 1.

Book chapter
Published: 26 March 2021 in Advances in Transport Policy and Planning
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Freight transport systems are facing ever-growing demand and increasingly stringent requirements. Governments are pressured to develop new policies and fund new projects that drive forward the freight transport systems. We provide an overview of typical evaluation approaches used for freight transport policies and projects, from the public policy perspective. We make a simple introduction to the freight transport system, including the most representative agents and components. We introduce a basic framework, briefly reviewing some key literature on the topic and describe the salient features of the state of freight transport appraisal practice today. We also introduce the main freight transport modeling approaches that support project appraisal. We distinguish three types of freight projects according to their geographical scope—global, national and local level—as the appraisal techniques differ. Cost-Benefit Analysis is the prevalent technique in global level projects and very common in national level projects. Multicriteria Analysis type approaches dominate at the local level. Finally, we identify research challenges related to appraisal of freight transport projects and policies.

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Lóránt Tavasszy; Vasco Reis. Appraisal of freight projects and policies. Advances in Transport Policy and Planning 2021, 205 -233.

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Lóránt Tavasszy, Vasco Reis. Appraisal of freight projects and policies. Advances in Transport Policy and Planning. 2021; ():205-233.

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Lóránt Tavasszy; Vasco Reis. 2021. "Appraisal of freight projects and policies." Advances in Transport Policy and Planning , no. : 205-233.

Journal article
Published: 25 March 2021 in Computers in Industry
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The Physical Internet (PI), a new vision for the future of the global freight transport and logistics system, describes a geographical hierarchy of interconnected networks of networks, from the urban, to the national, the continental, and the global level. Like today, in PI the maritime ports will fulfil roles as continental and global hubs. Differently than ports today, however, decisions to split and bundle cargo across ships and other modes will not be made solely on the basis of long-term agreements by ports, but rather ever more dynamically and in real-time, aiming to reconsolidate shipments within the port area. This implies a need to reconsider the currently used information systems (ISs), and to gain understanding of future requirements to satisfy their needs. We exploit a design science research (DSR) approach to shape these requirements. Among the many components of future ISs, we study ports’ track-and-trace (T&T) capability. The proposed information architecture (IA) enables to integrate T&T capability in PI ports by means of information carried on PI containers into the logistics chain via an open interface platform, which also supports interoperability among the various actors’ ISs. The design is based on the Reference Architecture Model for Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0). This model supports the analysis of PI ports in key dimensions along with hierarchical logistics entities, which could be used as a blueprint for IAs of PI ports, globally. We provide insights into the approach’s applicability by means of the illustrative case of Teesport, located in Northeast England (United Kingdom).

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Patrick B.M. Fahim; Rowoon An; Jafar Rezaei; Yusong Pang; Benoit Montreuil; Lorant Tavasszy. An information architecture to enable track-and-trace capability in Physical Internet ports. Computers in Industry 2021, 129, 103443 .

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Patrick B.M. Fahim, Rowoon An, Jafar Rezaei, Yusong Pang, Benoit Montreuil, Lorant Tavasszy. An information architecture to enable track-and-trace capability in Physical Internet ports. Computers in Industry. 2021; 129 ():103443.

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Patrick B.M. Fahim; Rowoon An; Jafar Rezaei; Yusong Pang; Benoit Montreuil; Lorant Tavasszy. 2021. "An information architecture to enable track-and-trace capability in Physical Internet ports." Computers in Industry 129, no. : 103443.

Chapter
Published: 13 January 2021 in Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial Networks
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One of the proposed approaches to decarbonize freight transport systems is to internalize the environmental costs of transport, by means of carbon emission-based taxes. The expected impact is a reduction of transport demand and an increased use of environmentally friendly transport technologies. The magnitude of the impact will depend on the levels of taxation, the activities to which they apply and the degrees of freedom allowed to companies to react to the taxes. In this chapter we explore the impact mechanisms of carbon taxes by investigating the reorganization responses of freight decision-makers. We do this through a series of empirical cases of recent modelling studies at city, corridor, country, continent and global level. The city case involves an application of an agent-based model to evaluate a carbon credit point system for city logistics. The corridor case involves carbon pricing of container transport in the hinterland of the port of Rotterdam over a multimodal network. The country and continental cases describe the effects of network-wide truck charging, with a focus on mode choice, vehicle type and routing. The global case concerns a full economic impact analysis of internalization of external costs of supply chains, also looking at the effect of changes in sourcing decisions of companies. We draw lessons concerning the impacts of logistics decisions on the impact of policies and identify needs for further research. Common findings relevant for climate change policy include the following: (1) prices needed to achieve a significant impact are a multiple of current market prices, (2) logistics decisions may act as buffer for the propagation of taxes towards consumers and, as a result, (3) the ultimate price impacts for consumers could remain small. In order to be able to predict impacts of climate policies, there is a need to continue research on the way companies take logistics decisions. This includes decisions in specific areas or logistics, but also on decision processes, to better understand the dynamics of impact pathways.

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Lóránt Tavasszy. The Influence of Logistics Decisions on Transport Decarbonization: Lessons from Local to Global Scale. Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial Networks 2021, 15 -34.

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Lóránt Tavasszy. The Influence of Logistics Decisions on Transport Decarbonization: Lessons from Local to Global Scale. Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial Networks. 2021; ():15-34.

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Lóránt Tavasszy. 2021. "The Influence of Logistics Decisions on Transport Decarbonization: Lessons from Local to Global Scale." Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial Networks , no. : 15-34.

Journal article
Published: 09 December 2020 in Sustainability
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In this study, we demonstrate the importance of incorporating shippers’ preference heterogeneity into the optimization of the China Railway express network. In particular, a bilevel programming model is established to minimize the total construction cost for the government in the upper level and maximize the shippers’ satisfaction in the lower level. The proposed model considers price, time, reliability, frequency, safety, flexibility, traceability, and emission. Two designs are obtained by applying the model to two scenarios, in which one is of the aggregate shipper group and the other is of the three distinct clusters. Results show that explicitly including heterogeneity in network optimization pays off in terms of the dramatic increase in shippers’ satisfaction and the share of the sustainable railway without generating extra cost for the system. The results of this study could lead to insightful implication for proper network planning for the China Railway express and some useful suggestions on the subsidies of the government.

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Zhuo Zhang; Dezhi Zhang; Lóránt Tavasszy; Qinglin Li. Multicriteria Intermodal Freight Network Optimal Problem with Heterogeneous Preferences under Belt and Road Initiative. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10265 .

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Zhuo Zhang, Dezhi Zhang, Lóránt Tavasszy, Qinglin Li. Multicriteria Intermodal Freight Network Optimal Problem with Heterogeneous Preferences under Belt and Road Initiative. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10265.

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Zhuo Zhang; Dezhi Zhang; Lóránt Tavasszy; Qinglin Li. 2020. "Multicriteria Intermodal Freight Network Optimal Problem with Heterogeneous Preferences under Belt and Road Initiative." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10265.

Journal article
Published: 20 November 2020 in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
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China Railway Express (CRE) is one of the most important constituent parts of the Belt and Road Initiative. Freight demand analysis is fundamental as a basis for the operational strategy of CRE and the investment policy along the CRE-routes. Most of the existing relevant literature has focused on the organization of the train operations of CRE, with little research related to demand analysis. This paper contributes to filling this gap by estimating customers’ demand preferences for rail freight service attributes, by using a novel multi-criteria decision-analysis (MCDA) method namely Best-Worst Method (BWM). To this end, a BWM survey was conducted in China to capture customers’ preferences for the main attributes that define the transport service offered by CRE. Two variants of BWM, the linear and the Bayesian, are employed for the analysis. Reliability is suggested as the most important attribute for CRE to focus on, to gain customers. We also conduct a cluster analysis based on the results, which helps the CRE operator to identify homogeneous customer segments, and to optimize the use of CRE’s resources with a differentiated pricing strategy.

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Qinglin Li; Jafar Rezaei; Lori Tavasszy; Bart Wiegmans; Jingwei Guo; Yinying Tang; Qiyuan Peng. Customers’ preferences for freight service attributes of China Railway Express. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 2020, 142, 225 -236.

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Qinglin Li, Jafar Rezaei, Lori Tavasszy, Bart Wiegmans, Jingwei Guo, Yinying Tang, Qiyuan Peng. Customers’ preferences for freight service attributes of China Railway Express. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2020; 142 ():225-236.

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Qinglin Li; Jafar Rezaei; Lori Tavasszy; Bart Wiegmans; Jingwei Guo; Yinying Tang; Qiyuan Peng. 2020. "Customers’ preferences for freight service attributes of China Railway Express." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 142, no. : 225-236.

Review
Published: 09 October 2020 in Sustainability
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Urban logistics policies have become instrumental in achieving sustainable transport systems. Developing and emerging countries still lag far behind in the implementation of such policies when compared with developed countries. This exposure gap provides an opportunity for policy transfer, but this is a complex process requiring knowledge of many contextual factors and involving multiple steps. A good understanding of those contextual factors of measures by cities may be critical for a successful transfer. Our study aimed to identify the different contexts of urban logistics measures or policies worldwide and to assess their significance for policy transferability. In this study, urban logistics measures discussed in the literature were retrieved with a systematic literature review method and then the contexts were recorded, distinguishing between economic development levels and geographical regions. The analysis revealed that the economic level and geographical location of cities both have a strong association with the type of measure implemented. Barriers and drivers were identified by assessing policy transfer between developed and developing countries. Institutional and physical barriers appeared to be highly pertinent for a range of measures, while drivers or facilitators were identified from specific problems in developing countries and the respective measures in developed countries. Thus, the analysis of contextual factors can provide a first response to the key challenges and opportunities of sustainable urban logistics policies transfer to developing countries.

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Abel Reda; Girma Gebresenbet; Lori Tavasszy; David Ljungberg. Identification of the Regional and Economic Contexts of Sustainable Urban Logistics Policies. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8322 .

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Abel Reda, Girma Gebresenbet, Lori Tavasszy, David Ljungberg. Identification of the Regional and Economic Contexts of Sustainable Urban Logistics Policies. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (20):8322.

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Abel Reda; Girma Gebresenbet; Lori Tavasszy; David Ljungberg. 2020. "Identification of the Regional and Economic Contexts of Sustainable Urban Logistics Policies." Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8322.

Journal article
Published: 03 September 2020 in Sustainability
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Crowdshipping systems are receiving increasing attention in both industry and academia. Different aspects of crowdshipping (summarized as platform, supply, and demand) are investigated in research. To date, the mutual influence of crowdshipping platform design and its supply side (with participating crowdshippers) has not yet been thoroughly investigated. This paper addresses this mutual influence by investigating the relations between shipping performance and intrusiveness to daily trips of commuters who voluntarily act as cycle couriers. In an experiment in The Hague, cyclists were asked to transport small parcels during a simulated daily commuting routine. The grid of commuting trips acted as a relay network to move parcels to their individual destinations. All the movements of the parcels were recorded by GPS trackers. The analysis indicates that a higher degree of complexity of rules in crowdshipping systems can lead to better system performance. Meanwhile, it also imposes higher intrusiveness, as participants need to deviate more from their routines of daily, uninterrupted trips. The case also suggests that a well-designed crowdshipping system can increase system performance without having to ask too much from crowdshippers. This study provides reference to better design such systems, and opens up directions for further research that can be used to provide thorough guidelines for the implementation of crowdshipping platforms.

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Xiao Lin; Yoshinari Nishiki; Lóránt Tavasszy. Performance and Intrusiveness of Crowdshipping Systems: An Experiment with Commuting Cyclists in The Netherlands. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7208 .

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Xiao Lin, Yoshinari Nishiki, Lóránt Tavasszy. Performance and Intrusiveness of Crowdshipping Systems: An Experiment with Commuting Cyclists in The Netherlands. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (17):7208.

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Xiao Lin; Yoshinari Nishiki; Lóránt Tavasszy. 2020. "Performance and Intrusiveness of Crowdshipping Systems: An Experiment with Commuting Cyclists in The Netherlands." Sustainability 12, no. 17: 7208.

Journal article
Published: 23 July 2020 in Transport Policy
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Reducing emissions caused by urban freight transportation is an increasingly important policy objective for transportation planners around the world. New and innovative ways of data collection provide new possibilities to analyze these issues. In this paper we present MASS-GT, a new multi-agent simulation system for urban goods transport. The empirical basis is provided by an exceptionally large dataset of truck trip travel diaries for The Netherlands that was collected from transportation management systems using an automated data collection interface. The dataset is very dense and includes information on vehicles, routes, and shipments carried.

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Michiel de Bok; Lóránt Tavasszy; Sebastiaan Thoen. Application of an empirical multi-agent model for urban goods transport to analyze impacts of zero emission zones in The Netherlands. Transport Policy 2020, 1 .

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Michiel de Bok, Lóránt Tavasszy, Sebastiaan Thoen. Application of an empirical multi-agent model for urban goods transport to analyze impacts of zero emission zones in The Netherlands. Transport Policy. 2020; ():1.

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Michiel de Bok; Lóránt Tavasszy; Sebastiaan Thoen. 2020. "Application of an empirical multi-agent model for urban goods transport to analyze impacts of zero emission zones in The Netherlands." Transport Policy , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 17 July 2020 in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
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This paper investigates the willingness of shippers to delegate control over the transportation mode in freight transportation, using discrete choice analysis. Data originate from a large survey among global shippers. The results show that, under certain conditions, most shippers are willing to hand over mode selection authority to the service provider. Using latent class analysis, we classify shippers into four market segments, each with a different degree of willingness against different types of performance improvements. Firms can use this characterization of freight transportation demand to design service packages that will meet the demands of global supply chains.

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Masoud Khakdaman; Jafar Rezaei; Lóránt A. Tavasszy. Shippers’ willingness to delegate modal control in freight transportation. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2020, 141, 102027 .

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Masoud Khakdaman, Jafar Rezaei, Lóránt A. Tavasszy. Shippers’ willingness to delegate modal control in freight transportation. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2020; 141 ():102027.

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Masoud Khakdaman; Jafar Rezaei; Lóránt A. Tavasszy. 2020. "Shippers’ willingness to delegate modal control in freight transportation." Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 141, no. : 102027.

Journal article
Published: 20 May 2020 in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
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In this paper, we present a complex network analysis of the air transport network using the air cargo, instead of the passenger, perspective. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work where a global cargo network comprising passenger airlines, full-cargo airlines, and integrators’ capacity was studied. We used estimated yearly cargo capacity between airport pairs as input to the model. After assessing network characteristics of the sub-networks representing different carrier types, the full network was obtained as a super-imposition of the individual sub-networks. The resulting network has both small-world and scale-free characteristics. Its topological properties resulted in a higher flow imbalance and concentration with respect to its passenger counterpart, with a smaller characteristic path length and diameter. This result is consistent with the larger catchment area of cargo airports, which heavily rely on road feeder services for the ground leg. Finally, we showed how different attack strategies result in hubs of hub-and-spoke systems or airports behaving as bridges between communities being attacked first. We believe this work to be of relevance both for academics and for practitioners in an era where, due to the soaring of e-commerce and next day delivery, new players are entering the air cargo business and competition is constantly increasing.

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Alessandro Bombelli; Bruno F. Santos; Lóránt Tavasszy. Analysis of the air cargo transport network using a complex network theory perspective. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2020, 138, 101959 .

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Alessandro Bombelli, Bruno F. Santos, Lóránt Tavasszy. Analysis of the air cargo transport network using a complex network theory perspective. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2020; 138 ():101959.

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Alessandro Bombelli; Bruno F. Santos; Lóránt Tavasszy. 2020. "Analysis of the air cargo transport network using a complex network theory perspective." Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 138, no. : 101959.

Journal article
Published: 24 December 2019 in Research in Transportation Economics
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Consolidation of goods is a promising strategy for reducing city logistics problems. For the last two decades, the concept of urban consolidation centres (UCCs) has been implemented in different cities. UCCs that were started for special subsectors (e.g. construction material handling) are relatively successful; however, general purpose UCCs are not performing well at all. Most UCCs are financially dependent on government support. The UCC concept can be successfully implemented by developing a consistent subsidy or tax scheme aiming to internalize the negative external effects of conventional urban goods distribution. In this paper, we describe and test such policy - a delivery cap and price (DCAP) scenario, combined with a subsidy for a UCC alternative – to reduce carbon emissions for urban goods delivery. The scenario introduces a cap on goods deliveries made to shopkeepers by conventional vehicles, using so-called carbon credit points (CCPs). We demonstrate this policy with a stylized implementation of a city logistics agent based model for the inner city of Rotterdam. The results indicate that this financial scheme could positively influences the use of UCC, ensures its financial viability and significantly reduce the external effects of urban freight transport.

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Nilesh Anand; Ron van Duin; Lorant Tavasszy. Carbon credits and urban freight consolidation: An experiment using agent based simulation. Research in Transportation Economics 2019, 85, 100797 .

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Nilesh Anand, Ron van Duin, Lorant Tavasszy. Carbon credits and urban freight consolidation: An experiment using agent based simulation. Research in Transportation Economics. 2019; 85 ():100797.

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Nilesh Anand; Ron van Duin; Lorant Tavasszy. 2019. "Carbon credits and urban freight consolidation: An experiment using agent based simulation." Research in Transportation Economics 85, no. : 100797.

Journal article
Published: 22 November 2019 in Transport Policy
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Due to its growing impacts on society, freight transport has become an important area of concern for transport policy makers. Logistics processes underlying freight transport are changing rapidly, driven by progress in information technology and an unparalleled growth of consumer involvement in supply chains. This development is also driving change in freight transport flows, by all modes of transport. We argue that a qualitative understanding of logistics innovations is a prerequisite for effective quantitative explorations of future freight flows and the associated influence of transport policies. Our main objective is to review these innovations and derive new requirements for freight modelling, including for practical model applications and scientific research. We focus on 3 basic dimensions of model improvement: the structural elements of the system that are modeled, the functional relations between these elements, and the dynamic properties of models. Research is needed in each of these dimensions to allow models to support contemporary innovations in logistics and freight transport systems.

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Lóránt A. Tavasszy. Predicting the effects of logistics innovations on freight systems: Directions for research. Transport Policy 2019, 86, A1 -A6.

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Lóránt A. Tavasszy. Predicting the effects of logistics innovations on freight systems: Directions for research. Transport Policy. 2019; 86 ():A1-A6.

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Lóránt A. Tavasszy. 2019. "Predicting the effects of logistics innovations on freight systems: Directions for research." Transport Policy 86, no. : A1-A6.

Journal article
Published: 21 October 2019 in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
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Hinterland freight transportation is managed according to a pre-designed schedule. In daily operations, unexpected uncertainties cause deviation from the original plan. Thus replanning is needed to deal with the perturbations and complete the transportation tasks. This paper proposes a mixed-integer programming model to re-plan hinterland freight transportation, based on the framework of synchromodality. It is a holistic resolution of shipment flow rerouting, consequence transshipment organization in the intermediate terminals, and corresponding service rescheduling. The replanning benefits from a high operational flexibility and coordination via a split of shipment and aligning the departure time of service flows with the shipment flows.

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Wenhua Qu; Jafar Rezaei; Yousef Maknoon; Lóránt Tavasszy. Hinterland freight transportation replanning model under the framework of synchromodality. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2019, 131, 308 -328.

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Wenhua Qu, Jafar Rezaei, Yousef Maknoon, Lóránt Tavasszy. Hinterland freight transportation replanning model under the framework of synchromodality. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2019; 131 ():308-328.

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Wenhua Qu; Jafar Rezaei; Yousef Maknoon; Lóránt Tavasszy. 2019. "Hinterland freight transportation replanning model under the framework of synchromodality." Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 131, no. : 308-328.

Journal article
Published: 22 February 2019 in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
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Value of time and value of reliability are two important user attributes that reflect shippers’ behavioral preferences, and as such influence the design of transport service networks. As shippers preferences will vary widely, it is important to consider these variations between users in the design of service networks. Up to now, network design research has ignored the combined use of time and reliability valuations for heterogeneous user populations. The objective of this paper is to address these attributes in a model for freight service network design targeting service performance improvement. We present a new frequency based service network design model with transshipments, capacity constraints and heterogeneous users. We apply the model to demonstrate that including heterogeneity explicitly in network design pays off in terms of an improved user performance of the network. A case study is conducted for a railway network in China. Values of time and reliability are estimated from a recent Stated Preference survey and used to determine distinct user classes. The proposed optimization problem is solved using an improved Simulated Annealing based heuristic method, for the case of the aggregate user group and the case of two distinct classes. Results show that by taking variations in shippers’ VOT and VOR into account, users’ total generalized cost is reduced while service levels improve. We conclude that incorporating heterogeneous VOT and VOR into the service network design problem is of interest for decisions on network investments.

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Liwei Duan; Lorant A. Tavasszy; Jafar Rezaei. Freight service network design with heterogeneous preferences for transport time and reliability. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2019, 124, 1 -12.

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Liwei Duan, Lorant A. Tavasszy, Jafar Rezaei. Freight service network design with heterogeneous preferences for transport time and reliability. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2019; 124 ():1-12.

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Liwei Duan; Lorant A. Tavasszy; Jafar Rezaei. 2019. "Freight service network design with heterogeneous preferences for transport time and reliability." Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 124, no. : 1-12.

Journal article
Published: 11 February 2019 in Management Decision
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Purpose Port performance and port choice have been treated as separate streams of research. This hampers the efforts of ports to anticipate on and respond to possible future changes in port choice by shippers, freight forwarders and carriers. The purpose of this paper is to develop and demonstrate a port performance measurement methodology, extended from the perspective of port choice, which includes hinterland performance and a weighting of attributes from a port choice perspective. Design/methodology/approach A review of literature is used to extend the scope of port performance indicators. Multi-criteria decision analysis is used to operationalize the context of port choice, presenting a weighted approach using the Best-Worst Method (BWM). An empirical model is built based on an extensive port stakeholder survey. Findings Transport costs and times along the transport chain are the dominant factors for port competitiveness. Satisfaction, reputation and flexibility criteria are the other important decision criteria. The results also show how the availability of different modal alternatives impact on the position of a port. A ranking of routes for hinterland regions is done. Originality/value The paper focuses on two extensions of port performance measurement. So far, not all factors that determine port choice have been included in port performance studies. Here, first, factors related to hinterland services are included. Second, a weighting of port performance measures is proposed. The importance of factors is assessed using BWM. The approach is demonstrated empirically for a case of the European contestable hinterland regions, which so far have lacked quantitative analysis.

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Jafar Rezaei; Linde Van Wulfften Palthe; Lori Tavasszy; Bart Wiegmans; Frank Van Der Laan. Port performance measurement in the context of port choice: an MCDA approach. Management Decision 2019, 57, 396 -417.

AMA Style

Jafar Rezaei, Linde Van Wulfften Palthe, Lori Tavasszy, Bart Wiegmans, Frank Van Der Laan. Port performance measurement in the context of port choice: an MCDA approach. Management Decision. 2019; 57 (2):396-417.

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Jafar Rezaei; Linde Van Wulfften Palthe; Lori Tavasszy; Bart Wiegmans; Frank Van Der Laan. 2019. "Port performance measurement in the context of port choice: an MCDA approach." Management Decision 57, no. 2: 396-417.

Editorial
Published: 06 December 2018 in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
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This editorial introduces the papers of a special issue of the journal on freight transport modelling. Together, 9 papers present recent advances in 3 key areas of descriptive and predictive freight modelling: activity chaining, joint modelling of choices and segmentation of users. Next to a methodological contribution in one of these 3 areas, several papers also present empirical findings that are of broader relevance for different choice problems, industries and countries.

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Lóránt Tavasszy; Hanno Friedrich. Supply chain elements in freight transport modelling. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2018, 121, 1 -3.

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Lóránt Tavasszy, Hanno Friedrich. Supply chain elements in freight transport modelling. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2018; 121 ():1-3.

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Lóránt Tavasszy; Hanno Friedrich. 2018. "Supply chain elements in freight transport modelling." Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 121, no. : 1-3.