Flow of goods to the shock of COVID-19 and toll-free highway policy: Evidence from logistics data in China

Comparative evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak and vaccine discovery on the global transportation industry

“…Although the transportation industry has been among those most severely impacted by supply chain disruption triggered by the pandemic ( Wang et al, 2022 ), the effects of COVID-19 have not been uniform across all sectors of the industry ( Tardivo et al, 2021 ). However, previous studies have investigated the impact of COVID-19 on passenger markets ( Chen et al, 2022 , Mumbower, 2022 , Shortall et al, 2021 , Warnock-Smith et al, 2021 , Zhang et al, 2021), express logistics ( Bastug and Yercan, 2021 ; Yang et al, 2021), and freight markets ( Fang and Guo, 2022 , Narasimha et al, 2021 ; Notteboom et al, 2020). In this section, we divide transportation industry background into two broad markets: passenger and freight transportation.…”

Extended Multicriteria Group Decision Making with a Novel Aggregation Operator for Emergency Material Supplier Selection

“…Flexibility is a concept derived from the need to reduce adverse effects on the supply chain [ 90 ], which is identified as the capability of a supply chain to be resilient and to react and change in order to meet changes in market demand [ 91 ]. Demanders and suppliers are important components of the supply chain, so the flexibility of suppliers in terms of batches [ 10 ], time [ 92 ], and categories has a significant impact on the demand side [ 93 ].…”

“…In the short term, the number of people infected with COVID-19 has increased sharply, and most have had mild and asymptomatic infections. When the demand for medical supplies rises sharply because people are infected with variants of COVID-19 in Chinese society, the corresponding material supplier cannot meet the real demand in the short term [ 7 , 9 , 10 ].…”

China-Europe freight transportation under the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic and government restriction measures

“…The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic developed in 2020, and government restriction measures to contain the pandemic have led to an inevitably huge blow to the world economy and widespread challenges ( Fang & Guo, 2022 ; Guan et al, 2020 ; Rodrigues et al, 2021 ; Xu, Shi, et al, 2021 ). Studies have suggested that the pandemic led to a cliff-like decrease in international trade in 2020, and the transportation sector, as the main undertaker of international trade, bore the brunt of the decline ( Dube et al, 2021 ; Guan et al, 2020 ; Verschuur et al, 2021 ; Xu, Yang, et al, 2021 ).…”

“…Given the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transportation and logistics sector, scholars have widely investigated the topic for a range of modes (e.g., air ( Li, 2020 ; Suau-Sanchez et al, 2020 ), sea ( Notteboom & Haralambides, 2020 ; UNCTAD, 2020 ), rail ( Tardivo et al, 2020 ), and highway ( Fang & Guo, 2022 )). However, most relevant research studies focused on domestic markets, with few studies analyzing the international market.…”