Application of Dea Method to Intermodal Container Transport

Abstract

In order to make better assessment of intermodal container transportation, the authors have analyzed DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) method in deciding the most favorable container line from Serbian ports to the near East ports. To allow for applications to a wide variety of activities, term organization unit (Decision Making Unit – DMU) refers to container line. DEA Method has been used to give the estimation of efficiency of operations in organization units. Organization units are container lines in which containers are loaded with mineral water in bottles. The main points in transportation net are factories of mineral water (Knjaz Milos Arandjelovac and Minaqua Novi Sad), Serbian ports ( the Port of Belgrade, the Port of Danube Pancevo and the Port of Prahovo) and nine Mediterranean ports in the near East area. Amount of mineral water that is dispatching from factories to Serbian ports is equal to amount that can be loaded to one container. Having containerized in Serbian ports mineral water is reloaded to the river–sea ships with unified dimensions, so the ships are continuing to travel to the near East ports. The near East ports are the ending points. Input variables in DEA problem are transportation costs and strategy resistance factor in function of container line. Time traveling of one container is in a function of container line and transportation capabilities of container lines are output variables. Transportation costs are counted on the base of integer programming method and Dijkstra algorithm.

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“…The exploration of Becha (2017) stated special features of a smart container as providing door open/close status, temperature, shock, movement and vibration changes with live information through embedded sensors to the smart container and this further clarifies by Scholliers et al (2016) stated that sensors can provide data about environmental conditions in the container while transportation such as temperature, humidity, light, pressure and shock. E-seals also another feature, attached to the container door to simplify the process by providing a wire-less and automated alarm and tracking feature (Yanjie et al, 2011). The most significant element which smart container shares is real time data, developed through information technology and shares through the internet supports to share the real time information for different parties within the supply chain (Yanjie et al, 2011).…”

“…E-seals also another feature, attached to the container door to simplify the process by providing a wire-less and automated alarm and tracking feature (Yanjie et al, 2011). The most significant element which smart container shares is real time data, developed through information technology and shares through the internet supports to share the real time information for different parties within the supply chain (Yanjie et al, 2011). Maspero et al (2008) describes after the 11 th of September attack in America, all transport modes must follow strict security measures and based on same the container security measures they have taken, fulfills by smart containers by providing secure and traceable containers.…”

“…Fazi et al (2015) declares in the last decade in global trade movement of large quantities of goods are more and more associated with container supply chains and therefore a smart and quick planning is required to improve performances and flexibility of the transport where Fruth and Teuteberg (2017) presented Smart container offers an end to end visibility of shipment execution which proves the relationship with supply chain visibility. Yanjie et al (2011) 2015) further argues that today technologies and brainpower applied to supply chain performance improvement is greater than ever before and devices like scanners, seals, RFID, Container Security Devices (CSDs) etc. allow companies to get a better picture of the customer's requirements and needs by giving this information to all parts of the supply chain in order to respond quickly, efficiently, accurately and in mass which acts as a technological solutions provider for visibility.…”

Analysing Airport Efficiency in East China Using a Three-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis

“…To illustrate, Graham (2005) reviews the situation of airport benchmarking and points that DEA is a more attractive technique than the other methods for its less demanding data requirements. Radonjić et al (2011) employ DEA method in deciding the most favourable container line from Serbian ports to the near East ports. Jaržemskienė (2012) draws the conclusion that DEA proves to be most suitable for measuring the productivity of airports as complex systems.…”