The implementation of Bike-Sharing Systems (BSS) is expected to lead to modifications in the travel habits of transport users, one of which is the choice of travel mode. This change could depend on various factors, and hence, it is pertinent to identify them. Especially, given that cities aim to...

Purpose: The Just-in-Sequence (JIS) approach is evidencing advantages in efficiently managing variety-driven costs, and reducing the risk of disruption in sourcing, manufacturing companies and third-party logistics. This has increased its implementation in the manufacturing industry, especially...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine the convenience of using a contract model as an integration mechanism for decision-making in a decentralized supply chain of small agricultural producers in a developing country, taking as hypothesis coordinated chain achieves better...

This paper aims to analyze the impacts of a backup agreement contract on the performance of a small agricultural producers' citrus supply chain. A backup agreement contract, which ensures for each echelon that a quantity of products will be bought independently of real demand, is proposed to...

"This book examines urban goods transport. It addresses quantitative methods of transport modelling, applied to freight/goods transport in urban areas. It also gives an overview as well as a set of methodological proposals to model urban goods transport flows for planning and management issues"--