The state of the art in the European quantitative oriented transportation and logistics research : 14th Euro Working Group on Transportation & 26th Mini Euro Conference & 1st European Scientific Conference on Air Transport redaktör: Zak, Jacek
Series: Procedia: social and behavioral sciences ; 20Publication details: Amsterdam Elsevier, 2011Description: 1118 sSubject(s): Online resources: Abstract: Transportation, as a field of study, focuses its analyses and research efforts on different aspects of moving passengers and goods by appropriate means. It investigates: transportation needs, features and behavior of the load, conditions and parameters of the movement, specific characteristics of transportation environment, complexity of transportation processes, transportation technologies (including various types of transportation means), transportation infrastructure, human resources involved in transportation activities, existing rules and regulations of transportation and many others. Logistics is a theory and practice of planning, organizing, fulfilling and controlling the movement of goods from their origins (sources) to their destinations – points of final consumptions. Logistics, as a field of study, investigates three major flows that exist in each logistics chain, i.e.: the material flow (materials and products), the information flow that supports the movement of materials and the associated cash flow. Transportation and logistics activities resulting from transportation/ logistics needs existed for ever, even in the most primitive cultures, when various loads were carried, pulled or floated. Transportation/logistics have been always developing thanks to discoveries and technological improvements, such as: invention of a sail or wheel. Today, transportation and logistics are highly technologically advanced areas utilizing: automated equipment, modern information and communication technologies, intelligent computer systems, technologically armed infrastructure or very flexible mobile solutions. This technological advancement of transportation and logistics is a result of a constant interest and effort of researchers from all over the world that investigate various, above mentioned areas of these fields. This technological advancement of transportation and logistics is reflected in this volume of Conference Proceedings, published by Elsevier in the series of Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences. The Proceedings include 4 plenary lectures and 109 papers presented at three joint events: / 14th Meeting of the Euro Working Group on Transportation – In quest for advanced models, tools, and methods for Transportation and Logistics, / 26th Mini-EURO Conference – Intelligent decision making in transportation and logistics, / 1st European Scientific Conference on Air Transport – Research horizon. All these events were held at Poznan University of Technology, in Poznan, Poland on September 6-9, 2011Transportation, as a field of study, focuses its analyses and research efforts on different aspects of moving passengers and goods by appropriate means. It investigates: transportation needs, features and behavior of the load, conditions and parameters of the movement, specific characteristics of transportation environment, complexity of transportation processes, transportation technologies (including various types of transportation means), transportation infrastructure, human resources involved in transportation activities, existing rules and regulations of transportation and many others. Logistics is a theory and practice of planning, organizing, fulfilling and controlling the movement of goods from their origins (sources) to their destinations – points of final consumptions. Logistics, as a field of study, investigates three major flows that exist in each logistics chain, i.e.: the material flow (materials and products), the information flow that supports the movement of materials and the associated cash flow. Transportation and logistics activities resulting from transportation/ logistics needs existed for ever, even in the most primitive cultures, when various loads were carried, pulled or floated. Transportation/logistics have been always developing thanks to discoveries and technological improvements, such as: invention of a sail or wheel. Today, transportation and logistics are highly technologically advanced areas utilizing: automated equipment, modern information and communication technologies, intelligent computer systems, technologically armed infrastructure or very flexible mobile solutions. This technological advancement of transportation and logistics is a result of a constant interest and effort of researchers from all over the world that investigate various, above mentioned areas of these fields. This technological advancement of transportation and logistics is reflected in this volume of Conference Proceedings, published by Elsevier in the series of Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences. The Proceedings include 4 plenary lectures and 109 papers presented at three joint events: / 14th Meeting of the Euro Working Group on Transportation – In quest for advanced models, tools, and methods for Transportation and Logistics, / 26th Mini-EURO Conference – Intelligent decision making in transportation and logistics, / 1st European Scientific Conference on Air Transport – Research horizon. All these events were held at Poznan University of Technology, in Poznan, Poland on September 6-9, 2011