Recently added articles from Transportation Journal:
The role of strategic security: internal and external security measures with security performance implications.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract Ensuring a supply chain is secure from intentional as well as unintentional incidents is critical in today's global economy. However, some firms place a greater level of strategic importance on supply chain security than others. This research compares firms in the food ...
Finding the proper fleet-downsizing strategies for U.S. agricultural cooperatives: a case of GROWMARK, Inc.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract U.S. agricultural cooperatives (coops) are facing the need to reduce their fleet sizes, and are interested in knowing the extent to which they should downsize their fleets. The standard fleet-sizing models (mathematical models) that determine the optimal fleet sizes may ...
Supply chain contingency planning and firm adoption: an initial look at differentiating the innovators.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract This research strives to identify key differentiating characteristics of firms adopting a supply chain contingency planning process from those that do not adopt. The researchers base their model on Rogers' innovation diffusion variables and supplement the model with ...
101+ Actions to Improve Transportation and Logistics Performance.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... 101+ Actions to Improve Transportation and Logistics Performance, 2nd Edition, by Walter L. Weart, Edward J. Marien, and Lee Cisneros, Pigwick Papers, LLC. ISBN 978-0-97542433-9. This book is not your typical logistics classroom text. It is instead a practical guide that bridges ...
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us).(Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us))(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), by Tom Vanderbilt. Alfred A Knopf, a division of Random House of Canada Limited Toronto, ISBN 978-0-307-39772-0. 402 pages (including 91 pages consisting of 285 endnotes). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Try to ...
Ethanol and the petroleum supply chain of the future: five strategic priorities of integration.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract This article investigates ethanol and its integration into the petroleum supply chain. Recent state and federal mandates require varying levels of ethanol in reformulated gasoline (RFG) and, consequently, new complexities are being introduced into what has to this ...
The independence of independents: influences on commercial driver intentions to commit unsafe acts.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract Modern American folklore describes independent owner-operator truckers as the last cowboys or frontiersman. If accurate, the individualistic nature of the independent trucker would mitigate the effectiveness of "corporate culture" in modifying behavioral intentions ....
Affiliation of authors in transportation and logistics academic journals: a reevaluation.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract The authors update prior studies that evaluated the publication output of faculty members in refereed logistics, supply chain management, and transportation journals to identify current trends and changes. In addition a new weighted average metric is used to allocate ...
Ocean shipping in the Great Lakes: an analysis of industry transportation cost savings.(Notes and Comments)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System has historically been important to the development of the North American mid-continent. The system allows ocean vessels to carry freight between the Lakes region and overseas points, and allows for movement of goods on laker vessels (lakers) both ...
Transport Revolutions--Moving People and Freight Without Oil.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Transport Revolutions--Moving People and Freight Without Oil, by Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl. Stylus Publishing, LLC, Herndon, Virginia. 2008. Pp. 351. ISBN-13: 9781-84407-248-4. $88.00. The recent dramatic run-up in prices for crude oil and refined petroleum products, and ...
A model of logistics outsourcing strategy.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract Previous research points to an apparent gap between the prescriptive models designed to guide companies in making systematic outsourcing decisions and the practices some companies actually use. While prescriptive models would suggest the predominance of outsourcing ...
Risk assessment for the security of inbound containers at U.S. ports: a failure, mode, effects, and criticality analysis approach.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract This study proposes a design of a decision support framework for a reliable cargo container shipment and handling system based on failure mode effect and criticality analysis for inbound containers at U.S. ports. The proposed prototype of a simple risk assessment system ...
The status of Owner-Operators under the Canada Labour Code: is change needed?(Notes and Comments)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Owner-Operators (O/Os) are a significant component of Canada's truck driving workforce, particularly in the long distance sector. These self-employed persons are not covered under Part III of the Canada Labour Code (CLC) and the economic viability of the owner-operator in Canada has been a ...
Evaluating the private fleet.(Notes and Comments)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Private fleets account for approximately 75 percent of the trucks operating on U.S. highways, representing 4.5 million of the approximately 6 million trucks moving freight, and include roughly 50 percent of all heavy-duty trucks currently in use (Gallagher 2007). Private trucking accounts ...
Postponement application in Greater China and its related determinants.
Jun 22, 2008; ... Abstract Postponement has a long history in both practical applications and academic literature. However, past empirical research has almost always been conducted in the Western countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate the current situations of postponement ...
Why do carriers use owner operators in the U.S. for-hire trucking industry?(Industry overview)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Abstract Using the theoretical lenses of transaction cost economics and the structure-conduct-performance paradigm, this article examines the rationale for U.S. for-hire trucking carriers' use of owner operator contract drivers. The analysis employs a cross-sectional financial ...
Diversity in business-to-business information exchange: an empirical analysis of manufacturers and their trading partners.
Jun 22, 2008; ... Abstract This article examines the performance implications of information exchange in industrial supply chains. While existing literature has addressed the critical role of information exchange in supply chain integration, existing studies fail to address the specific ...
A comparative study of third-party logistics in Mainland China and Hong Kong.(Notes and Comments)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The last decade has witnessed dynamic changes in business logistics requirements. However, firms, or logistics users, often lack the competence to operate logistics activities internally while facing increased global competition and higher customer expectations; thus an increasing number ...
Contemporary Logistics.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Contemporary Logistics, Ninth Edition, by Paul R. Murphy Jr. and Donald F. Wood. Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458. Pp. 415. ISBN 978-0-13-156-207-3. The authors of Contemporary Logistics improved upon a good textbook when they released their ninth ...
Real-time trailer scheduling for crossdock operations.(Crossdocks )
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Crossdocks play an important role in supply chain operations. Due to the need to decrease transportation lead time to coordinate with other supply chain activities such as just-in-time, make-to-order, or merge-in-transit strategies, shortening the total transfer time at ...