{"title":"Exploring the Potential Challenges of Belt and Road Initiative for Sustainable Supply Chains: South Asian Perspective","authors":"Butt, Shah, Ahmad","doi":"10.5325/transportationj.60.3.0307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.60.3.0307","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been the subject of research in many disciplines. However, its application to the supply chain domain is scant and limited. In particular, extant literature is mute on how BRI may potentially impact sustainable supply chains. Given that BRI is a large-scale project focusing on building large-scale logistics infrastructure, it can have serious implications for sustainable supply chains from environmental and social perspectives. This study attempts to address this gap. Using a phenomenological approach and conducting 36 semi-structured interviews with senior managers from five South Asian countries (Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, and China), this study reveals that BRI can potentially harm organizations' supply chains from environmental, social, and governance perspectives. The study contextualizes the findings in the extant literature and further articulates its implications for theory and practice. It finally concludes by discussing its limitations and future research directions.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":"60 1","pages":"307 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46771349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supply Chain Management Research Productivity and Growth: 2017–2019","authors":"Michael Maloni, Sina Golara, Graham H. Lowman","doi":"10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.2.0208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.2.0208","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The supply chain management (SCM) discipline lacks resources to assess research performance, and our journals do not always receive fair recognition by other business disciplines. This study therefore extends a series of analyses dating back 50+ years to assess SCM publication productivity, evaluating the most productive schools across six journals as well as the associated growth of the base of SCM scholars. The results depict a relatively stable core set of productive schools, while relative research productivity remains mostly fluid outside this core set. In support, SCM author concentration results depict that the overall base of SCM scholars is continuing to expand without signs of slowing. Both SCM programs and individual scholars can apply the results to benchmark peers to improve research productivity and justify requests for resources at their schools. The results also help young scholars understand SCM research expectations and likewise target potential partners for collaboration. We close with thoughts for scholars, academic leaders, and journal editors, including the need for more international and multidisciplinary research collaboration as well as a greater diversity of schools graduating new SCM scholars. Additionally, SCM scholars and journals should revisit our historically strong ties to professional practice to enhance our research relevancy.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":"60 1","pages":"208 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44760184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motor-Carrier Safety: A Review and Research Recommendations for 2020 and Beyond","authors":"M. A. Douglas","doi":"10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.2.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.2.0093","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article presents results of a systematic review of the US motor-carrier safety literature in transportation, logistics, and safety journals. The discipline has seen growth in research over the decades, and growth of the field rapidly increased in the last decade. We organize the literature into a systems framework and summarize the research across industry system levels to include government, regulators, carriers, and drivers. We then apply a goal-framing approach to reveal some of the dynamic interactions between system levels and the environment, as entities work to minimize risk to life and property during freight operations while striking a balance between the industry's welfare and societal welfare. This article provides recommendations for future research to fill gaps in the current body of knowledge and to aid government officials, regulators and law enforcement officials, carrier managers, and drivers in addressing industry challenges and maintaining safe roads in 2020 and beyond.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":"60 1","pages":"140 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43047368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determining Optimum Toll Charges for Freight Vehicles Considering Multi-Stakeholder Objectives in Urban Conditions","authors":"Perera, Thompson, Wu","doi":"10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.2.0171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.2.0171","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Trucks generate more externalities (environmental and social) than passenger vehicles, especially when trucks divert off freeways. When toll charges increase, such as the significant recent rise in Melbourne, Australia, more trucks tend to avoid toll roads (quality roads), generating more externalities. This diversion adds substantial negative impacts on residents, the environment, and society. In fact, determining an optimum toll charge for freight vehicles is a crucial decision to be made by policymakers considering socioeconomic aspects. The objective of this study is to develop an approach to design an optimal toll pricing scheme for multiclass vehicles, including specific truck types, considering both direct costs and externalities. Additionally, the study developed an approach to identify the tradeoffs between various objectives of the designed scheme considering given constraints. Nonlinear programming and user equilibrium techniques are used to model the problem, and the costs (direct costs and externalities) are quantified for Victoria, Australia. This nondeterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard), nonconvex problem with nonlinear constraints was solved using the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA) II. The model was applied to both a small-sized hypothetical network and a real network, with static demand conditions to illustrate differences between common toll schemes. Results are presented for Pareto-optimal solutions.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":"60 1","pages":"171 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48576080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fei Fan, Xuerong Zhang, Wenyi Yang, Chengliang Liu
{"title":"Spatiotemporal Evolution of China’s Ports in the International Container Transport Network under Upgraded Industrial Structure","authors":"Fei Fan, Xuerong Zhang, Wenyi Yang, Chengliang Liu","doi":"10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.1.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.1.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Containerization and its impact on structural shifts in maritime transport have attracted the attention of maritime researchers. However, few studies address the impact of China’s current economic reforms and industrial structure upgrades on China’s container ports. To fill this gap, this article delivers new insights on the geographical evolution of China’s ports in international container transport during the upgrade of industrial structure. This study finds that path dependence is evident in the container shipping structure, and major regional connections are still present between China and the maritime regions of East-Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and North America. During the study period, the spatial dynamics of the international linkages of China’s container ports exhibited a tendency to develop from an initial monocentric structure to an isolated double-center structure, and then a polycentric clustering structure. Dynamic panel analysis shows there is a long-term significant equilibrium relationship between industrial structure upgrading and port container transport trade. Proxy indices including the industrial structure advanced index, the industrial structure comprehensive index and the essential evolution of industrial structure have positive effects on the improvement of port container transport trade.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":"60 1","pages":"43 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48274386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Diamond Anniversary: Sixty Years of Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Research","authors":"Swanson, Suzuki","doi":"10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:To celebrate 60 years and pay tribute to the many great authors, reviewers, and editors of Transportation Journal we revisit the articles that have contributed so much to our discipline. In doing so, we provide a systematic literature review of the articles published in the journal since its inaugural issue in 1961. This review summarizes the most cited articles, the most frequently published authors, the primary topics of interest by decade, and other useful analyses. We also provide reviews of the top five most cited articles from the journal’s past. In all, this examination of Transportation Journal archives has yielded interesting results providing a roadmap to the past, present, and future of transportation, logistics, and supply chain research.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":"60 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45412570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring National Culture Impact on Logistics Performance","authors":"Deepak P. Kesavan, A. Deif","doi":"10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.1.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.1.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The increased logistics complexity due to supply chain globalization requires deeper understanding of a country’s logistics performance. This performance is usually captured through infrastructure, services, and procedure elements and is understood in operational and economical terms. This exploratory research adds a social view to understand logistics performance variation across countries through focusing on their national culture dimensions. Using secondary data from the international Logistics Performance Index (LPI) report as well as the scores from Hofstede national culture dimension surveys, the impact of national culture on logistics performance was explored. Statistical results showed Power Distance and Uncertainty Avoidance dimensions were found to have a negative correlation with LPI while Individualism as well as Long-Term Orientation were both positively correlated to LPI. This cultural understanding adds to the growing social literature research on logistics performance and can guide logistics managers in their decisions regarding where and when to locate their resources.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":"60 1","pages":"20 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43273441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergency Shelter Site Selection in Maar Shurin Community of Idlib (Syria)","authors":"Çetinkaya, Özceylan, İşleyen","doi":"10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.1.0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/TRANSPORTATIONJ.60.1.0070","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Constructing shelters is one of the most important precautions to reduce human casualties during disasters. The critical point in locating the shelter is the selection of the proper site. Unless shelters are placed in the right locations, they cannot serve as lifesaving tools. In this article, shelter site selection for a conflict area in Syria is taken into account. Notoriously, Syria has been facing these conflicts since 2011 and the intensity of the incidents is varying from region to region. Thus, in this study, Maar Shurin Community of Idlib is chosen as the study area because of its high airstrike/casualty statistics in 2018. A geographic information system (GIS) and its multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) tools are used for determining the shelter site. Four different scenarios based on different criteria weights are generated to provide alternative solutions. It is believed that the outputs of the proposed methodology can help the local administration to solve its real-life problems.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":"60 1","pages":"70 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49584833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sixth Logistics Faculty Salary Survey","authors":"Janeth Gabaldon,M. Theodore Farris,Ila Manuj,Uchenna Ekezie","doi":"10.5325/transportationj.60.3.0239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.60.3.0239","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As Supply Chain Management has evolved, doctoral programs have struggled to produce enough new people with doctorate degrees to keep up with demand and to replace tenure-track faculty who leave for various reasons. Accurate salary data is required by both potential candidates and recruiting institutions. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International conducts an annual survey of faculty and administrative salaries for member schools. Each school self-reports salary figures. This reporting is subjective to how each reporting university defines faculty residency. Many reported salaries for Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management (SCM) are co-mingled with “Management,” “Marketing,” or “Operations” faculty and are not included under the correct classification. To address the limitations of the AACSB salary report, the authors developed a survey to collect data on SCM/Logistics and Transportation. Faculty salaries focused on the US-based faculty for public, private, AACSB-accredited and non–AACSB-accredited institutions. This article examines the impact of factors such as faculty rank, primary field of practice, years in the present rank, work allocation, and accreditation on academic salaries in the fields of SCM/Logistics and Transportation. This information is of immense use for both career and hiring decisions.","PeriodicalId":46529,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Journal","volume":"284 ","pages":"239-257"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138504952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}