Since they were first developed, lean methodologies have grown in importance and scope and have been applied in both manufacturing and service. However, determining how to transform a common manufacturing company into a lean one, as well as how to evaluate the future company, are challenges for...

Dry ports are intermodal transport hubs in the inland, which operate as centres for the transshipment of sea cargo to inland destinations. They could make the import and export easier and increase trade. This paper considers conditions to construct them in the Indochina area including three...

The literature on modal choice analysis of freight transport has revealed that the freight transport market is highly diverse. Aggregation over heterogeneous commodity types can cause a bias in the estimation of models. Therefore, disaggregation over commodity groups has been the norm and...