The Research on Competitiveness of Road Transport Enterprises: Lithuanian Case

Lazauskas, Jonas; Бурейка, Гинтаутас; Valiūnas, Valdas; Pečeliūnas, Robertas; Matijošius, Jonas; Nagurnas, Saulius

doi:10.2478/v10244-012-0011-y

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“…Lazauskas et al [34] investigated competitiveness among road transport companies in Lithuania. They stated that most companies paid the largest amount of attention to price, delivery time, and safety.…”

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Outsourcing as a Challenge for Achieving Competitive Advantage in Road Freight Industry – The Case of Croatia

Naletina

Petljak

Rožić

2020

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The purpose of this study was to explore outsourcing as a possible source of competitive advantage for road freight operators, with the empirical research directed towards the road freight transportation sector. Methodologically, this study drew on the data collected from a sample of Croatian road freight transporters. Because a certain number of transportation companies tend to outsource their resources, the insight into outsourcing activities was gained through analysing (1) the number of hired vehicles in the fleet (outsourced vehicles), and (2) the number of hired drivers (outsourced drivers). A variance inflation test, correlation and multiple regression analysis were conducted to test the model assumptions. The research results confirmed the connection between the externalised resources and the differentiation of services and staff. The main contribution and managerial implications included that the companies with a more significant number of hired vehicles in their fleet should differentiate their services. In contrast, the companies that own the majority of their vehicles should build their competitive advantage through staff differentiation.

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Outsourcing as a Challenge for Achieving Competitive Advantage in Road Freight Industry – The Case of Croatia

Naletina

Petljak

Rožić

2020

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“…Here are some of them. "Striving for attracting a larger number of clients, enterprises involved in rendering transport services should, first of all, care about improvement of a reliability of the service and the reputation of the enterprise" (Lazauskas et al 2012). "Changes in freight transport are mainly driven by logistics concepts (e.g., sourcing, consolidation and distribution of goods)" (Huber et al 2015).…”

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Modelling of Transport Operations in Supply Chains in Obedience to “Just-in-Time” Conception

Lukinskiy

Merkuryev

2018

Transport

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Transportation is a key logistics function, which determines the dynamic nature of material flows in logistics systems. At the same time, transportation is a source of uncertainty of logistics operations performance in the supply chain. Obviously, the development of a new approach for evaluation of the duration of delivery “Just-In-Time” (JIT) will improve the efficiency of supply chains in accordance with one of the major criteria, namely customer satisfaction. One of the basic approaches to make effective management decisions in transportation and other logistic operations is the JIT concept. In the majority of examined sources the JIT concept is described on the verbal level without any usage of calculation dependences. The paper is devoted to the formation of analytical and simulation models, which allow obtaining the probabilistic evaluation of the implementation of unimodal and multimodal international transportation JIT. The first model where the order of the operations implementation does not affect final result is formed on the basis of the probability theory: distribution laws composition, theorems of numerical characteristics of random variables, formula of complete probability. The second model accounts the impact of operations implementation order in transportation and their interconnection and is based on the simulation (the method of statistic experiments) and shown as a corresponding algorithm, which allows to consider different limitations (technical, organizational and so on). Considered analytical dependences give the possibility to obtain the necessary estimations of the transport operations implementation according to JIT: mean transportation time, delivery implementation probability by the set moment or the delivery time with the set probability. To carry out some comparative calculations and clarify the algorithm, two international routes have been chosen: the first one is a unimodal road transportation, the second one is a multimodal transportation (road and marine transport). All the data, which is necessary for calculation has been collected on the basis of official information (in particular, the data of tachograph, special questionnaires filled in by the drivers, the survey results of the managers). For unimodal transportations analytical dependences and modelling results give close results. For the combined multimodal transportations taking into account various limitations the preference must be given to the simulation. The modelled indexes take into consideration their intercommunication and definitely estimate the supply chains reliability, and this allows decreasing the uncertainty of the logistic system.

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“…So, the aim of DRT is to minimize unutilized capacities and maximize costeffectiveness. Beside this, the research shows that DRT systems have more preferable emission parameters as well (Jakubauskas 2008;Lazauskas et al 2012;Szendro et al 2012). Nowadays, almost 60% of the European citizens are living in cities and approximately 85% of the European gross domestic product is produced within urban areas.…”

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New pricing theory of intelligent flexible transportation

Andrejszki

Török

2015

Transport

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Abstract. In the paper, possible pricing structures of flexible transport systems have been investigated. After a brief introduction into demand responsive systems, the currently used pricing systems have been analysed. Having reviewed the conventional pricing methodologies -in line with the average cost and marginal cost based methods -the advantages and the disadvantages of particular systems are presented. What is more, that traditional pricing theory enabled to order costs of flexible transportation systems only approximately to passengers in proportion to their demanded transportation performance, thus traditional pricing framework is not able to fully meet the principle of fairness. For reaching the highest level of fairness loops a fictive unit of individual trips is introduced as the base of pricing. When applying individual loops is gives a unique approach to describe unit cost of the operators especially considering that empty runs are taken into account in a fair way. Beside fairness, it is also an essential objective to represent economies of scale and the preference of early bookings in the pricing methodology. Accordingly, the below presented 'mixed price system' had good results in the reduction of average fares related to new travellers and also in the improvement of attraction related to 'early birds' . Therefore, the goal of this research was to define the direction and the aspects of the development process related to the pricing methods of flexible transportation.

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The Research on Competitiveness of Road Transport Enterprises: Lithuanian Case

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Outsourcing as a Challenge for Achieving Competitive Advantage in Road Freight Industry – The Case of Croatia

Outsourcing as a Challenge for Achieving Competitive Advantage in Road Freight Industry – The Case of Croatia

Modelling of Transport Operations in Supply Chains in Obedience to “Just-in-Time” Conception

New pricing theory of intelligent flexible transportation

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