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Review of intermodal freight transportation in humanitarian logistics

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dc.contributor.author Ertem, Mustafa Alp
dc.contributor.author İşbilir, Melike
dc.contributor.author Arslan, Ayşenur Şahin
dc.date.accessioned 2018-09-19T07:06:00Z
dc.date.available 2018-09-19T07:06:00Z
dc.date.issued 2017-03
dc.identifier.citation Ertem, M.A., İşbilir, M., Arslan, A.S. (2017). Review of intermodal freight transportation in humanitarian logistics. European Transport Research Review, 9(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12544-017-0226-z tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn 1867-0717
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/1738
dc.description.abstract Purpose Using intermodal transportation is vital for the delivery of relief supplies when single mode alternative becomes unusable or infeasible. The objective of this paper is to investigate the use of intermodal freight transportation in humanitarian logistics. Methods This paper first identifies the differences between multimodal and intermodal transportation. Then, we examine the use of each transportation mode for specific disaster types and phases. When combinations of transportation modes (i.e. air, road, rail and sea) for intermodal transportation are considered together with different disaster types (e.g. earthquake, flood and famine), the feasible decision space becomes rather large. To explore this decision space, we have reviewed the academic and practitioner studies as well as several non-governmental organizations (NGO)' disaster archives. Results From this exploration, we developed a transportation mode/disaster-type combination matrix and a transportation mode/disaster-phase combination matrix. We then discuss examples of real life usage of intermodal transportation in humanitarian logistics and share our findings and analyses. Of 369 academic humanitarian logistics articles, only 20 have mentioned transportation mode changes. In practitioner studies, we found a decreasing percentage of the usage of slower modes (e.g. sea and rail) in the disaster response phase over time. We were not able to find a significant relationship between a specific transportation mode and a specific disaster-type or - phase. Road transportation seems to cover most of the disaster operations regardless of the disaster-type or - phase. Conclusions We can conclude that intermodality and the transportation unit concept is not being studied extensively in humanitarian logistics. Most of the relief organizations do not share transported freight amounts in their reports and those that do share transported freight amounts in their reports do not explicitly mention mode changes. We discuss the enablers of and obstacles to the effective use of intermodal transportation in humanitarian logistics and propose future research directions. We anticipate that intermodal transportation in humanitarian logistics will garner greater research attention and increased utilization in coming years. tr_TR
dc.language.iso eng tr_TR
dc.publisher Springer Heidelberg tr_TR
dc.relation.isversionof 10.1007/s12544-017-0226-z tr_TR
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess tr_TR
dc.subject Humanitarian Logistics tr_TR
dc.subject OR In Disaster Relief tr_TR
dc.subject Literature Review tr_TR
dc.subject Freight Transportation tr_TR
dc.title Review of intermodal freight transportation in humanitarian logistics tr_TR
dc.type article tr_TR
dc.relation.journal European Transport Research Review tr_TR
dc.contributor.authorID 52460 tr_TR
dc.contributor.authorID 21838 tr_TR
dc.identifier.volume 9 tr_TR
dc.identifier.issue 1 tr_TR
dc.contributor.department Çankaya Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Endüstri Mühendisliği Bölümü tr_TR


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