Centrality in Strategic Transportation Network Design :
[Book]
an Application to Less-Than-truckload Networks /
Anne Lange.
Wiesbaden :
Gabler,
2019.
1 online resource (257 pages)
Edition KWV Ser.
5.1.1. Stable overall transportation time in a less-than-truckload network
Intro; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acronyms; Variables; 1. Introducing network centrality for strategic transportation network design; 1.1. Emphasizing the role of network centrality in transportation network design; 1.2. Structure of the thesis; 2. Transportation networks and their optimal design; 2.1. Transportation; 2.2. Transportation networks; 2.2.1. Network types; 2.2.2. Transporting cargo or passengers; 2.2.3. Creating efficiencies in transportation networks; 2.3. Optimal transportation network design -- an Operational Research perspective
2.3.1. Graph theoretic terminology for network design2.3.2. Strategic decisions for network design; 2.3.3. Tactical decisions for network design; 2.3.4. Operational decisions for network design; 2.3.5. Service-oriented aspects of OR network design; 2.3.6. Performance indicators for transportation networks; 2.4. Trade-off identification as an alternative perspective on network design; 2.4.1. Empirical challenges for optimal network design; 2.4.2. Trade-offs in network design; 2.5. Enriching optimal network design with qualitative aspects; 3. Transportation network centrality
3.1. Network topology and concentration as dimensions of network centrality3.2. Impact of network centrality on network performance; 3.2.1. Consolidation; 3.2.2. Link frequency; 3.2.3. Transportation distance and time; 3.2.4. Schedule reliability; 3.2.5. Network vulnerability; 3.2.6. System capacity flexibility; 3.2.7. Cost; 3.2.8. Summarizing network centrality and its relation to network performance; 3.3. Centrality measures in networks; 3.3.1. Freeman's centrality framework; 3.3.2. Measures of inequality in social groups; 3.3.3. Measures of market concentration
3.4. Measuring network centrality of passenger airline networks3.4.1. Assessing the outcome of deregulation; 3.4.2. Metrics for the centrality of passenger airline networks; 3.5. The role of network centrality in strategic network design; 4. Less-than-truckload network centrality; 4.1. Logistics service providers; 4.1.1. Markets for logistics service providers; 4.1.2. Categorizing logistics service providers; 4.1.3. Research topics related to logistics service providers; 4.2. Less-than-truckload transportation; 4.2.1. Less-than-truckload characteristics; 4.2.2. Less-than-truckload operations
4.2.3. European less-than-truckload market4.2.4. Services accompanying less-than-truckload transports; 4.3. Measuring less-than-truckload network concentration; 4.3.1. Similarities of airline and less-than-truckload networks; 4.3.2. Traffic flows in less-than-truckload networks; 4.3.3. McShan-Windle index; 4.3.4. Network concentration index; 4.3.5. Hubbing concentration index; 4.3.6. Comparing the indices; 4.4. Relevance of measuring less-than-truckload network concentration for network design; 5. An algorithm for less-than-truckload network design; 5.1. Algorithm specifications
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