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{"title":"An examination of ethical standards and behaviors in transportation brokerage","authors":"J. Drea, J. T. Kenny","doi":"10.22237/JOTM/1396310640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22237/JOTM/1396310640","url":null,"abstract":"The manuscript examines individual ethical decision making for common scenarios faced by transportation brokers, including unauthorized double brokering, booking and bouncing, and a failure to disclose all terms to a shipper. The results indicate significant discrepancies between what actions a broker would engage, what brokers perceive that others in the same industry would do, and what industry leaders perceive to be ethical.","PeriodicalId":242296,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transportation Management","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126328303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The 6th mode of transportation","authors":"Robert O. Walton","doi":"10.22237/JOTM/1396310700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22237/JOTM/1396310700","url":null,"abstract":"The five modes of freight transportation are normally characterized as motor carriers, railroads, airlines, water carriers, and pipelines. This paper will attempt to position the Internet as the sixth mode of transportation. This paper compares the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional five modes of transportation against the proposed 6th mode of the Internet. Without including the Internet as a mode of transportation, and tracking the economic value that it adds to the economy, the economic impact of the Internet as a mode is not considered. The recommendation of this study is that the Internet should be added to the list of modes of transportation of goods and therefore making the Internet the sixth mode of transportation.","PeriodicalId":242296,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transportation Management","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133825535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Distortions in the measurement of the efficiency of financial leverage strategies in the airline industry when operating leases are ignored","authors":"C. Scheraga, P. Caster","doi":"10.22237/JOTM/1396310580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22237/JOTM/1396310580","url":null,"abstract":"The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board have set forth a proposal requiring companies to capitalize operating leases and include them as assets and liabilities on their balance sheets. The proposal is motivated by the fact that current methods accounting for operating leases hide a great deal of off-book leverage and thus are misleading to investors. Such a change would have a significant impact on the U.S. airline industry where aircraft and property operating leases are quite prevalent. This study utilizes an in-depth strategic management perspective in examining how well U.S. airlines pursue optimization strategies with regard to the management of financial leverage in order to achieve desired targets of growth and profitability. Such benchmarking is accomplished by utilizing the DEA model suggested by Capobianco and Fernandes (2004). This study demonstrates the distortion inherent in inter-airline benchmarking when operating leases are not capitalized on the balance sheet.","PeriodicalId":242296,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transportation Management","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125738038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unintended consequences: Lessons learned when starting a logistics & transportation doctoral program","authors":"S. Rutner, C. Shephard, Paige S. Rutner","doi":"10.22237/JOTM/1396310520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22237/JOTM/1396310520","url":null,"abstract":"Many universities evaluate the costs and benefits of academic programs. An important decision is whether to offer a doctoral degree. Most articles and academics focus on the numerous benefits of a doctoral program. While many of the benefits that can stem from a doctoral program are summarized in this manuscript, the primary purpose is to highlight some of the hidden costs to creating and operating a doctoral program. The authors use their experience in developing a doctoral program in Logistics and Transportation to illustrate many of these potentially hidden costs. This should provide academics and administrators with better information to make future choices about specific Business School programs.","PeriodicalId":242296,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transportation Management","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121496674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making transportation options possible","authors":"Ronald Lembke, D. Rogers","doi":"10.22237/JOTM/1364774700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22237/JOTM/1364774700","url":null,"abstract":"Transportation options provide the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell transportation capacity at a future date. These options can provide shippers, carriers and logistics companies a significant opportunity to reduce risks and increase capacity flexibility. This paper summarizes some of these benefits, describes a number of issues to be resolved before trading transportation options can become a reality, and presents possible resolutions for these issues. INTRODUCTION In 2006, Tibben-Lembke and Rogers presented the concept of transportation options, a new tool for providing flexibility for supply chain managers. Despite the fact that transportation options are not currently traded, this proposed concept has already been discussed in the supply chain press (Lynch, 2007). Firms have begun looking to hedge their transportation risk, and since financial derivatives are utilized to ameliorate the risk of physical commodities, we believe applying them to transportation could provide managers an additional tool to manage costs. As described in detail below, transportation options would be quite similar in many ways to stock options and other financial derivatives. A primary function of financial derivatives is for one party to pay another participant to assume some risk. Transportation options would work similarly to stock options in this regard. For example, if a shipper bought an option to ship an item at a future date for a given price, they have eliminated the risk of needing to pay a higher price for that transportation at the time of the transaction. In exchange for the payment they receive, the option seller agrees to accept the risk of price increases, because the seller believes that the price will not rise to the extent that the purchaser of the option believes is likely. Given the sources of uncertainty companies face (access to capacity, fuel prices, driver shortages, etc., etc.), and the possibility for options to reduce these risks, we believe using options to hedge transportation costs could provide significant opportunities for parties at all stages of the supply chain: shippers, carriers, and 3PLs. Although we will refer to the provider of the transportation service as a “carrier,” we believe that transportation options could potentially be written for any transportation modes such as truck, ocean, air, rail, pipeline, or power line. Additionally, the transportation provider could be a non-asset-based third party such as an NVOCC. In fact, some forms of options have been traded on ocean shipping capacity since 1985 (Gray, 1987, Alizadeh and Nomikos, 2009), when the Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange (BIFFEX) futures contracts were created, trading on the 13 routes defined in the Baltic Freight Index (BFI). Multiple sizes of ships and types of cargoes are now included. The statistical relationships between the lanes and cargo types have been widely studied (Haigh et al..,2004, Nomikos and Alizadeh, 2002). ","PeriodicalId":242296,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transportation Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124187049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An empirical cross cultural assessment of a logistics/supply chain management typology","authors":"M. A. Mcginnis, A. Kara, John E. Spillan","doi":"10.22237/JOTM/1364774760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22237/JOTM/1364774760","url":null,"abstract":"This manuscript compares the three dimensions (Process Strategy, Market Strategy, and Information Strategy) of the Bowersox Daugherty (1987) logistics strategy typology among five disparate countries by integrating the findings of previous empirical research. The appropriateness of the three Bowersox/Daugherty dimensions when combined into the construct Overall Logistic Strategy (OLS) are assessed. The role of OLS impact on Organizational Competitiveness (COMP) through two intervening variables LCE (Logistics Coordination Effectiveness) and CSC (Customer Service Commitment) is evaluated. The findings indicate that OLS is an appropriate descriptor of logistics/ supply chain management in a wide range of cultures and that the integration of OLS, LCE, and CSC is useful in explaining COMP across cultures. The findings of this research are discussed in the context of earlier perspectives on organizational strategy and overall logistics strategy.","PeriodicalId":242296,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transportation Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130308603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"U.S. motor carrier hours of service regulations : their impact on carrier profitability and productivity","authors":"Ahren Johnston","doi":"10.22237/JOTM/1364774580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22237/JOTM/1364774580","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the history of hours of service regulations for U.S. motor carriers and investigates the changes to individual carrier profitability and productivity from the last major change to those regulations in 2003. The results of the analysis indicate that operating ratio worsened and sales per employee improved, and return on assets and return on equity were unchanged due to hours of service changes. The implications of these results given the recent changes to hours of service regulations in 2011 are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":242296,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transportation Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123044197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A decision support system for developing the managerial policy of urban paratransit services: A case study of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority","authors":"E. Melachrinoudis, Hokey Min, Candace Selneck","doi":"10.22237/JOTM/1364774640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22237/JOTM/1364774640","url":null,"abstract":"In the wake of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) of 1990, paratransit services were offered to improve mobility, employment opportunities, and access to community services for individuals who are mentally or physically handicapped. Due to the complexity involved in ADA rules and transportation regulations as well as the customized, on-demand service requirements, paratransit services are far more costly to render than fixed-route based mass transit services. In times of ongoing budget crisis among public entities, many public transit authorities cope with a dilemma of meeting the growing demand and complex service requirements, while controlling rising paratransit costs. Considering this dilemma, this paper proposes a decision support system (DSS) that can aid the mass transit authority in evaluating paratransit service performance, while continually improving performance over time. To validate the usefulness of the proposed DSS, it has been applied to the actual case of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA).","PeriodicalId":242296,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transportation Management","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130360013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The evolving relationship between airline profitability and passenger satisfaction","authors":"K. Gourdin","doi":"10.22237/JOTM/1364774520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22237/JOTM/1364774520","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the ongoing evolution of the U.S. airline industry under deregulation. After losing money for most of the past 35 years, carriers have made structural changes to their business models that have proven to be, at least in the short term, very profitable. After delineating these management actions, the paper examines their impact on passengers. The author utilizes the Service Quality Model to analyze the long-term implications of this new operating paradigm for passenger satisfaction. Based on this analysis the paper goes on to suggest several actions management could take to improve satisfaction. Finally, conclusions are offered and areas for additional research suggested.","PeriodicalId":242296,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transportation Management","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117130916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Increasing responsiveness through the firm-LSP relationship structure : a behavioral perspective","authors":"D. Gligor, M. C. Holcomb","doi":"10.22237/JOTM/1349049720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22237/JOTM/1349049720","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the behavioral aspects of the firm-logistics service provider (LSP) relationship in order to better understand the avenues through which LSP responsiveness to changing customer needs can be enhanced. Because the research examining the behavioral aspects of the firmLSP relationship is sparse, a dyadic qualitative research approach was taken to explore the development of a relationship structure that will facilitate the level of responsiveness that the firm desires. This study revealed that the key to enhancing LSP responsiveness lays in the structure of the firm-LSP relationship. Specifically, it was found that the level of cooperation, coordination, communication, and bonding between the focal firm and the LSP have a direct effect on the LSP’s level of responsiveness to the firm’s needs.","PeriodicalId":242296,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transportation Management","volume":"527 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130186507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}