Decision making background for the location of inland terminals

Abstract

Inland terminals are becoming important objects (knots) in today’s supply chain. This implies new methods to determine the location of inland terminal. Appropriate inland terminal location (ITL) decision depends on analyzing demand, employee’s availability, investment capabilities and other factors. In this paper we present gravity center method and median method as quantitative ones and Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP), ELECTRE and PROMETHEE as complex decision methods to determine inland terminal location. Given methods are implemented on the example of inland terminal location determination in Republic of Croatia.

Application of a Decision-Making Tool for Ranking Wellness Tourism Destinations

“…PROMETHEE has been successfully used in a number of interesting applications, including the selection of airport location [39,40], nature-based tourism [41,42], tourism competitiveness [43][44][45][46], supplier selection [47][48][49], medical tourism [36,50], transportation planning [51][52][53], renewable energy sources [54][55][56], aerospace industry [57][58][59], logistics [60][61][62][63], equipment selection [64][65][66][67], nanotechnology [68][69][70], medicine [71][72][73], and maritime transport [74][75][76][77], among other issues.…”

Inland terminal location selection using the multi-stakeholder best-worst method

“…TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units)) moved to/from an area in a certain time unit (e.g. Roso, Brnjac, and Abramovic 2015;Rožić, Ogrizović, and Galić 2016). Other frequently proposed economic factors related to organising inland transport chains are the labour market, as a resource for conducting inland facility operations (e.g.…”

“…In this sense, local transport infrastructure metrics (e.g. Rožić, Ogrizović, and Galić 2016;Komchornrit 2017) are used to indicate the properties of the infrastructure in relation to (potential) inland facilities in the area. Criteria concerning the development/construction of the infrastructure are also frequently mentioned, which are associated with the infrastructural layer, since that also involves the provision of the infrastructures.…”

“…volumes predicted to be generated in and/or attracted to the areaKa (2011);Kayikci (2010);Nguyen and Notteboom (2016);Roso, Brnjac, and Abramovic (2015);Rožić, Ogrizović, and Galić (2016); Wei, Sun, and Zhuang(2010); Li, Shi, and Hu (2011); Komchornrit (2017); Regmi and Hanaoka (2013) Local labour market Local supply of sufficiently skilled labour for inland terminal-related activities Karaşan and Kahraman (2019); Rožić, Ogrizović, and Galić (2016); Long and Grasman (2012); Nguyen and Notteboom (2016) Regional economic development Local/regional socio-economic characteristics indicating the development of population and economy Ka (2011); Kayikci (2010); Roso, Brnjac, and Abramovic (2015) Regional transport/ logistics competition Number of companies involved in inland terminal (-related) activities in the area Karaşan and Kahraman (2019); Long and Grasman (2012); Regmi and Hanaoka (2013) Government policy Local/regional political, administrational, and regulatory circumstances with regards to the inland terminal(-related) developments/ activities Ka (2011); Karaşan and Kahraman (2019); Nguyen and Notteboom (2016); Long and Grasman (2012); Li, Shi, and Hu (2011); Roso, Brnjac, and Abramovic (2015)…”