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Gateways, Corridors and Strategic City Pairs [PDF]

Advances in transportation technology may mean that topography matters less, but trade routes will continue to favour the paths of least resistance. The location of gateway cities and distribution hubs exhibit patterns of hierarchical systems.
Prentice, Barry E.
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Airship logistics: The LTA vehicle; a total cargo system [PDF]

, 1975
Design considerations for logistics are dealt with as they pertain to the large rigid LTA vehicle as either a commercial or military cargo carrier. Pertinent factors discussed are: (1) the basic mission; (2) types of payload; (3) the payload space in ...
Hackney, L. R. M.
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Transport infrastructures and regional development: The discovery of centrality of the container terminal of Gioia Tauro in the Mediterranian [PDF]

European container terminals of Mediterranean are enjoying of a discovery on the more dynamics routes of the whole world that link Europe to Far East-Pacific.
Domenico Marino, Francesco Latella, Francesco Timpano   +2 more
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Dynamic approach to solve the daily drayage problem with travel time uncertainty [PDF]

, 2012
The intermodal transport chain can become more e cient by means of a good organization of drayage movements. Drayage in intermodal container terminals involves the pick up and delivery of containers at customer locations, and the main objective is ...
Arango Pastrana, Carlos Alberto, Escudero Santana, Alejandro, Guadix Martín, José, Muñuzuri, Jesús   +3 more
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Investing in Entry-Level Talent [PDF]

, 2017
Even in today's competitive economic environment, there is much that companies can do to reduce entry-level turnover costs, increase employee engagement and retention, and create a talent pipeline for the future. Many companies pursue basic strategies to
Fay Hanleybrown, Kimbery Gilsdorf
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A new approach to analyze strategy map using an integrated BSC and FUZZY DEMATEL [PDF]

Management Science Letters, 2012
Today, with ever-increasing competition in global economic conditions, the necessity of effective implementation of strategy map has become an inevitable and necessary.
Seyed Abdollah Heydariyeh, Mojtaba Javidnia, Amir Mehdiabadi   +2 more
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Empty Container Management in the Benelux Waterways [PDF]

, 2013
The scientific contribution of this paper is the development of a model for empty container management in the hinterlands of the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam.
Limbourg, Sabine, Salmon, Frédéric
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Distribution of container flow among fixed‑formation container trains with consideration of implementing freight operations

Transportation and Information Technologies in Russia
Background. The scientific community is exploring the concept of fixed-formation container trains that perform loading and unloading operations while in motion.
Sergey P. Vakulenko, Airat M. Nasybullin, Liliya R. Aysina   +2 more
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Tanker orbit transfer vehicle and method [PDF]

A method and apparatus for transportation between orbits are presented. A tanker orbit transfer vehicle includes two stages each of which includes a fuel container.
Ryan, G. G.
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Strategies for dynamic appointment making by container terminals [PDF]

, 2012
We consider a container terminal that has to make appointments with barges dynamically, in real-time, and partly automatic. The challenge for the terminal is to make appointments with only limited knowledge about future arriving barges, and in the view ...
Douma, Albert, Mes, Martijn
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