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When slower is faster

open access: yes, 2015
The slower is faster (SIF) effect occurs when a system performs worse as its components try to do better. Thus, a moderate individual efficiency actually leads to a better systemic performance. The SIF effect takes place in a variety of phenomena.
Gershenson, Carlos, Helbing, Dirk
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Business integration between manufacturing and transport-logistics firms [PDF]

open access: yes
Purpose - This paper analyses how manufacturers and transport-logistics service providers (TLSPs) work together and integrate their business processes. The information technologies used to support the integration, the processes currently integrated, and ...
Lemoine, Olga W., Mortensen, Ole
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Business Models For Transport eBusiness [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper authors are presenting expectations from electronic commerce and its connotations on transport logistics. Based on trends, the relations between the companies in the international transport have to be strengthened using Internet business ...
Ana Peric   +2 more
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Infrastructure, competition regimes, and air transport costs: cross-country evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
The relevance of transport costs has increased as liberalization continues to reduce artificial barriers to trade. Countries need to adopt policies to get closer to global markets. Can improvements in infrastructure and regulation reduce transport costs?
Micco, Alejandro, Serebrisky, Tomas
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E-LOGISTICS – MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper presents the role and the importance of logistics for products and services inorder to obtain the competitive advantage. After a short presentation of logistics evolution, we moveon to defining the logistics concept, respectively integrated ...
Marcel LITRA, Stefan IOVAN
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A modelling approach of pooled urban consolidation centers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
International audienceCity logistics are the last link of complex supply chains which involve numerous stakeholders: carriers, inhabitants, public administration, etc. It is a small part of the total traveled distance, nevertheless it can represent up to
Burlat, Patrick   +3 more
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Green logistics service quality and LSP performance [PDF]

open access: yes
Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Logistics and Transport 2014 (ICLT 2014), "Innovation in Global Supply Chain Management", August 26-29, 2014, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.
Chaisurayakarn, Siriwan, Grant, David
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The cost of being landlocked : logistics costs and supply chain reliability [PDF]

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A large proportion of the least developed countries are landlocked and their access to world markets depends on the availability of a trade corridor and transit systems.
Arvis, Jean-Francois   +2 more
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