Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure and map the potential transportation network impedance to last-mile delivery (LMD) using spatial measures representing attributes of road network and planning controls. Design/methodology/approach: The transport network impedance is estimated as...

Quality of life studies typically focus either on aggregate measures of QOL variables using secondary data sources for aggregated spatial units or on primary data collected through sample surveys whereby individuals provide subjective assessments of QOL dimensions. This paper uses sample survey...

Purpose: Bangladesh is becoming one of the emerging destinations for global outsourcing. However, little is known about the usage patterns of third party logistics (3PL) outsourced services. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of 3PL usage, the organisational factors affecting...

The application of GIS-based techniques to analyse incident data such as crime has received a relatively large amount of research interest, the analysis of disaggregate fire incident data, in comparison has been the focus of much less attention. This paper, for the first time applies a Bayesian...

Purpose: This paper designs an optimal closed-loop supply chain network with an integrated forward and reverse logistics to examine the possibility of remanufacturing end-of-life (EoL) ships. Design/methodology/approach: Explanatory variables are used to estimate the number of EoL ships...