This article is orientated on accomplishment of comparative analysis of chosen alternatives in fleet management in road cargo transport. Actually it deals with the comparison of operative leasing of the fleet with individual administration in conditions of food distribution. The analysis is...

This article deals with leasing in general and its two forms, operative leasing and financial leasing, are also compared. The advantages of leasing are also described. Both forms of leasing arecalculated at examples in this article.The use of leasing in practice can be seen there. The results of...

Analysis of the transport sector in Italy gives evidence of infrastructure scarcity, management and organisational problems and, more generally, of poor quality and competitiveness of the services. At the end of 2005 the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures and Trasport established the UIRNet...

The considerable cost of maintaining large fleets has generated interest in cost minimization strategies. With many related decisions, numerous constraints, and significant sources of uncertainty (e.g. vehicle breakdowns), fleet managers face complex dynamic optimization problems. Existing...

In this work, we investigate a new, yet practical, variant of the vehicle routing problem called the vehicle routing problem with time windows and link capacity constraints (VRPTWLC). The problem considers new constraints imposed on road links with regard to vehicle passing tonnage, which is...

To better understand how road congestion adversely affects trucking operations in California, we surveyed approximately 1,200 managers of all types of trucking companies operating in California. More than 80% of these managers consider traffic congestion on freeways and surface streets to be...

To better understand how road congestion adversely affects trucking operations, we surveyed approximately 1200 managers of all types of trucking companies operating in California. More than 80% of these managers consider traffic congestion on freeways and surface streets to be either a "somewhat...

We develop a model to determine the optimal structure and size of a rail car fleet at a chemical company under uncertainty in demand and travel times as well as substitution between rail car types. First, we formulate an MILP model that accounts for the substitution relations between the types...

This paper considers the mobile facility routing and scheduling problem with stochastic demand (MFRSPSD). The MFRSPSD simultaneously determines the route and schedule of a fleet of mobile facilities which serve customers with uncertain demand to minimize the total cost generated during the...