TY - GEN
T1 - Survey on characteristics and challenges of synchromodal transportation in global cold chains
AU - Guo, Wenjing
AU - Beelaerts van Blokland, Wouter
AU - Lodewijks, Gabri
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Transportation of perishables such as fruits and vegetables with short shelf life in international, long distance and cooled condition, plays a key role in global cold chains. Compared with truck transportation, intermodal transportation largely reduces logistics cost and emissions, however, has less flexibility for disturbances. Another aspect is that truck transportation occupies the largest share in inland transportation, which causes traffic congestion and environmental pollutions. Synchromodal transportation is a known method to study the effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of transportation by using real-time information. However, limited articles can be found about the cold chain perspective, an integral analysis is missing. Our objective is to thoroughly analyze the characteristics and challenges of synchromodal transportation in global cold chains. The critical successful factors are analyzed at first. After that, we survey on planning problems in strategic, tactical and operational level, respectively. Finally, we conclude by suggesting further research directions.
AB - Transportation of perishables such as fruits and vegetables with short shelf life in international, long distance and cooled condition, plays a key role in global cold chains. Compared with truck transportation, intermodal transportation largely reduces logistics cost and emissions, however, has less flexibility for disturbances. Another aspect is that truck transportation occupies the largest share in inland transportation, which causes traffic congestion and environmental pollutions. Synchromodal transportation is a known method to study the effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of transportation by using real-time information. However, limited articles can be found about the cold chain perspective, an integral analysis is missing. Our objective is to thoroughly analyze the characteristics and challenges of synchromodal transportation in global cold chains. The critical successful factors are analyzed at first. After that, we survey on planning problems in strategic, tactical and operational level, respectively. Finally, we conclude by suggesting further research directions.
KW - Global cold chains
KW - Flexibility
KW - Environmental impact
KW - Synchromodal transportation
KW - Real-time switching
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-68496-3_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-68496-3_28
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-319-68495-6
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 420
EP - 434
BT - Computational Logistics
A2 - Bektaş, Tolga
A2 - Coniglio, Stefano
A2 - Martinez-Sykora, Antonio
A2 - Voß, Stefan
PB - Springer
CY - Cham, Switzerland
T2 - ICCL 2017: 8th International Conference on Computational Logistics
Y2 - 18 October 2017 through 20 October 2017
ER -