Critical Success Factors of Synchromodality: Results from a Case Study and Literature Review

Pfoser, Sarah; Treiblmaier, Horst; Schauer, Oliver

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.220

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“…The EU emphasizes efficiency gains through this cooperative approach and the provision and exchange of reliable information on sustainability metrics [137,138]. LSPs may allow shippers to choose the desired cost, speed, and level of environmental impact of a shipment, and devise a combination of modes and carriers to meet the shipper's requirements [139,140]. LSPs can also offer more frequent services to all customers.…”

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“…This ensures reliability and prevents data lock-in with a carrier. Pfoser et al [140] note that successful synchromodal transportation needs close cooperation between all stakeholders of the logistics chain, a willingness to change existing practices, and harmonized transport regulations, including for data sharing. Contract structures must be developed, which provide legal security for all market participants for the liability for delay, loss or damage.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Contract structures must be developed, which provide legal security for all market participants for the liability for delay, loss or damage. They do not see the development of infrastructure and information technology as significant barriers, although more research and modeling work is needed [140,142].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Decarbonizing intraregional freight systems with a focus on modal shift

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Road freight transportation accounts for around 7% of total world energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. With the appropriate incentives, energy savings and emissions reductions can be achieved by shifting freight to rail or water modes, both of which are far more efficient than road. We briefly introduce five general strategies for decarbonizing freight transportation, and then focus on the literature and data relevant to estimating the global decarbonization potential through modal shift. We compare freight activity (in tonne-km) by mode for every country where data are available. We also describe major intraregional freight corridors, their modal structure, and their infrastructure needs. We find that the current world road and rail modal split is around 60:40. Most countries are experiencing strong growth in road freight and a shift from rail to road. Rail intermodal transportation holds great potential for replacing carbon-intense and fast-growing road freight, but it is essential to have a targeted design of freight systems, particularly in developing countries. Modal shift can be promoted by policies targeting infrastructure investments and internalizing external costs of road freight, but we find that not many countries have such policies in place. We identify research needs for decarbonizing the freight transportation sector both through improvements in the efficiency of individual modes and through new physical and institutional infrastructure that can support modal shift.

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“…Finally, two enabling factors can be grouped into the customer‐related macrocategory defined by Pfoser et al (): customer cost structure and structure of the physical distribution channel. With regard to customer cost structure, empirical evidence of Tyre City and City of Books shows that customers are more likely to be involved in horizontal collaborations if logistics costs represent a larger percentage of the total costs.…”

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“…A broader look at the critical success factors can be found in Pfoser, Treiblmaier, and Schauer () who, through a review of the literature and expert interviews, classified such factors under three main macrocategories related to transport, customers, and external conditions. Notably, they also found an important role for policy and governments in the factors influenced by external conditions and showed that a behavioural shift is perhaps the most important factor related to customers.…”

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A triple‐win scenario for horizontal collaboration in logistics: Determining enabling and key success factors

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Horizontal collaborations emerged as a new strategic option in the logistics sector during the last decade. However, successful implementation of horizontal collaborations is far from a developed issue due to several barriers that exist or emerge when setting up such collaborative projects. This study aims at identifying the enabling factors supporting successful implementation of horizontal collaborations in the logistics sector, and in identifying key success factors that logistics service providers (LSPs) should consider. Results from a within-and cross-case analysis of two horizontal collaboration projects in the contract logistics sector support the proposed theoretical framework, highlighting both enabling and key success factors of horizontal collaborations. The former refers to factors that are related to LSPs, customers, and industries, whereas the latter results in a triple-win scenario characterised by LSP competences, trust, and environmental management orientation of successful horizontal collaboration projects.

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Multiperiod transshipment location–allocation problem with flow synchronization under stochastic handling operations

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The transshipment location–allocation problem consists of locating transshipment facilities (e.g., intermodal hubs) of a transportation network and allocating freight flows through them, from several origins to several destinations, to satisfy demand and supply constraints. The objective is to maximize the total net transportation utility given by the total shipping utility minus the total cost to locate the facilities. Moreover, flow synchronization at the facilities must also be ensured. Unfortunately, the flow synchronization depends on a broad set of unknown events, which could cause both unexpected reductions of the facility capacity and uncertain utility of handling operations. In this paper, we first want to evaluate how uncertainty on facility capacity and handling operations utility affects the transshipment location–allocation problem in terms of complexity, net gain, and optimal solutions. Moreover, we extend the problem from a single to a multi‐period setting to have a wider view of future scenarios realizations and consequently synchronize the flows by using different facilities on different periods. We propose a two‐stage stochastic programming formulation with recourse and analyze, over a ground set of instances, some well‐known economic indicators to derive managerial insights on the importance of addressing uncertainty for the problem. Finally, given the computational burden of solving the deterministic equivalent problem, we propose several heuristics based on progressive hedging and test their performance.

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Critical Success Factors of Synchromodality: Results from a Case Study and Literature Review

Cited by 49 publications

References 7 publications

Decarbonizing intraregional freight systems with a focus on modal shift

Decarbonizing intraregional freight systems with a focus on modal shift

A triple‐win scenario for horizontal collaboration in logistics: Determining enabling and key success factors

Multiperiod transshipment location–allocation problem with flow synchronization under stochastic handling operations

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