literature review on freight transportation

General reviews on urban transportation ( Lagorio, Pinto, & Golini, 2016; Neghabadi et al., 2019) cover freight on public transportation only as one aspect and do not expound on planning models for freight on public transportation in detail. In order to address this research gap, the objective of the paper at hand is to provide a comprehensive ...

This paper provides a literature review of freight transportation service procurement and investigates the challenges and opportunities regarding transportation organization and procurement mechanism design in the context of E-commerce. A total of 78 articles published in academic journals between 1998 and 2017 were reviewed.

All literature discussed in this review paper focuses on multimodal freight transportation, most of which is containerized (growing around 15% annually). Key reasons for containerization are an increase in the safety of cargo, reduction of handling costs, standardization, and accessibility to multiple modes of transportation ( Crainic & Kim ...

Review of the Literature. A review of past experiences and previous studies has shown that there is a great deal of scope and scope both in terms of time scale and in terms of the number of studies. ... Jin X. Valuation of travel time reliability in freight transportation: A review and meta-analysis of stated preference studies. Transp Res A ...

Urban logistics face growing complexity as cities seek sustainable development pathways; one solution is integrating freight transportation with public transit. The purpose of this study is to evaluate current practices, identify gaps, and highlight opportunities for advancement in this field. Through a comprehensive literature review guided by four research questions, this study evaluates ...

The Integration of Urban Freight in Public Transportation: A Systematic Literature Review. Urban logistics face growing complexity as cities seek sustainable development pathways; one solution is integrating freight transportation with public transit. The purpose of this study is to….

Se at 26000, Morocco; [email protected]. * Correspondence: [email protected]. Abstract: Urban logistics face growing complexity as cities seek sustainable development pathways; one ...

Market disruption has made the freight transport (FT) activities more complex. ... The systematic literature review comprises five steps inspired from . These steps are: (1) defining research question formulation, (2) keywords definition, (3) presenting inclusion and exclusion criteria, (4) searching database and collecting data, and (5 ...

The author reviews the IFT literature in freight transportation from between 2009 and 2019, focusing on the effect of digitization in performance indicators and supply chain drivers. Expand. 2. ... This paper conducts a literature review on freight transport service procurements (FTSP) ...

This article presents results of a systematic review of the conceptual and empirical literature published in the area of environmentally sustainable freight transportation (ESFT) since 1990. The research has been largely atheoretical and descriptive, though that has begun to change with the dramatic growth in this literature since 2010.

There has been significant growth in research on intermodal transport in freight distribution since the 1990s. Differentiating itself from previously published literature reviews, this paper evaluates the current state of this research using Systematic Literature Review methodology.

Introduction. The transportation system is recognized as the lifeblood of modern societies (Engström, 2016, Stenico de Campos et al., 2019).Roads, an integral part of this system, are used for short and long-distance goods delivery using vehicles (Engström, 2016).Freight transportation by road is widely used due to its flexibility (Dadsena et al., 2019, Rotaris et al., 2022), reliability ...

This paper presents the results of an extensive literature review of the VRP for urban freight transportation. An initial group of 178 papers extracted from Scopus database, and it was further shorted to a group of 111 relevant papers, applying deselection criteria.

Considering the importance of the road freight transport sector on the sustainability debate, the purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive review of the road freight transport literature to provide key information on the role that this field of knowledge must play in contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To accomplish this, we performed a state ...

This paper conducts a comprehensive investigation of the state-of-the-art of freight on public transportation by means of a systematic literature review. We start by giving an overview of the ...

A comprehensive definition is required to fully grasp the wider concept of urban freight logistics. There are a wide variety of definitions within the supply chain and freight logistics literature ...

This literature review shows the need for a broader coverage of the literature in order to investigate the area of crises in connection with freight transport. The literature has been focused on some transport modes and regions, while wide-spread investigation and derivation of findings for future or ongoing crises are missing.

This literature review aims to cover the under-researched area of strategic management in the road freight transport business. The purpose of the review is to uncover existing themes in ' hauliers strategic management, make recommendations for practice and propose an agenda for future research. We will therefore conduct

The systematic literature review by Elbert & Rentschler (2021) covers the pertinent literature on qualitative approaches including also important quantitative works. Masson et al. (2015) study the mixed urban transportation problem (MUTP) which is a special case of the LMDPSL. Show abstract.

Explore the latest full-text research PDFs, articles, conference papers, preprints and more on FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION. Find methods information, sources, references or conduct a literature review ...

- The purpose of this paper is to classify research on information and communication technology (ICT) for logistics and freight transportation on the basis of the main themes and methods and proposes directions for future research., - The review is based on 44 papers published from 1994 to 2009 in international peer‐reviewed journals.

On top of that, Meixell and Norbis (Citation 2008) and Flodén, Bärthel, and Sorkina (Citation 2017) have reviewed scientific and grey literature on choice of freight transport mode from different perspectives. Compared to those earlier reviews, however, our study adds value by reviewing the relevant literature and providing avenues for future ...

2.1. Operational Costs and Freight Transportation Cost Functions. Operational costs are those expenses incurred in the daily running of a business and are internal to the carriers and include both fixed and variable costs [Citation 3].Fixed costs are defined as the costs of having a vehicle standing and available for work, and are not subject to frequent change and are not generally affected ...

There has been significant growth in research on intermodal transport in freight distribution since the 1990s. Differentiating itself from previously published literature reviews, this paper evaluates the current state of this research using Systematic Literature Review methodology. The complementary aims are: (a) to identify the research lines ...