Modeling transportation routes of the pick-up system using location problem: a case study

Stopka, Ondřej; Ľupták, Vladimír; Dróździel, Paweł; Rybicka, Iwona

doi:10.1515/eng-2020-0089

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“…Faster and more efficient transportation of goods from the consignor to the consignee can be facilitated by use of the modern transport technologies and promising energy-efficient technical solutions [5][6][7][8]. Ensuring the safety of the transport process is no less important [9][10][11][12].…”

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Increasing the Efficiency of Transportation of Cargoes with a Cylindrical Shape

Mikhailov,

Semenov,

Kovtanets

et al. 2023

Communications

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One of the most important directions of intensification and increasing the efficiency of the transportation process is to improve the use of the carrying capacity and capacity of vehicles. For this, it is necessary to the choose rational schemes for loading the cargo into cargo places of the rolling stock. The possible options for loading the vehicle body with cylindrical loads, which are transported when they are installed on the end, are considered. The conducted analysis showed that there are several typical schemes for loading such cargoes. Analytical dependencies have been obtained that allow choosing a rational loading scheme when transporting such cylindrical loads, considering their parameters and the characteristics of cargo places of vehicles. Based on the performed research, the best variant is proposed, i.e. the option with the clearance of 0.2 m, allowing transportation of 125 cylindrical cargo units in the space of a vehicle.

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Increasing the Efficiency of Transportation of Cargoes with a Cylindrical Shape

Mikhailov,

Semenov,

Kovtanets

et al. 2023

Communications

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“…The first was because certain workers (such as health workers or those employed by the providers of essential products or services) continued to go to work and continued to drive on the roads. A second reason was logistics and distribution, which required an increase in the door-to-door distribution to tackle online shopping's exponential growth [10,11]. The third reason was that there was a move away from public transport to the use of private cars in the majority of cases.…”

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“…As [15] referred to, case studies are helpful to introduce new theory based on empirical data. The case study method is used in many scientific works concerning the transport sector, for example [11][12][13]16,17].…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Highway Traffic and Management: The Case Study of an Operator Perspective

Cruz

Sarmento

2021

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic created an enormous disruption to the everyday life of the modern society. Among the various urban systems, transportation services were among those that suffered the most significant impacts, particularly severe in the case of highways. This paper addresses the challenges and responses to the pandemic from a private highway operator’s perspective and from a multidisciplinary perspective. Highway operators faced two main challenges: on one hand, the need to cope with the potential disruption caused by the pandemic and a national lockdown for almost three months, the provision of road services, and the requirement to ensure the proper operation and maintenance, and on the other hand, the strong negative impact of the pandemic on levels of traffic. Our case study shows that the operator’s management response in question is essentially characterised by being a first response to short term impacts while balancing for workers health and safety, engineering and management, internal business management, and overall economic impact. Highway operators were hardly prepared for such an event and became more focused on prioritising their employees and clients’ safety to avoid service disruption. Regarding levels of traffic, the pandemic has had severe effects, although to a varying degree, depending on the different types of vehicles (heavy, light, passenger, freight, among other types of vehicles) and the location of highways (coastal vs. interior). The lessons learnt can be valuable in future disruptive events and for other highway concession operators.

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