Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review最新文献

{"title":"Corporate ESG performance and operational efficiency: The moderating effect of supply chain concentration","authors":"Lihua Sun ,&nbsp;Chunguang Bai ,&nbsp;Joseph Sarkis","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104446","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104446","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices and performance are of interest to diverse stakeholders. Organizations know they have to respond to this increased interest. Organizations, and scholarly research, have questions on whether ESG performance and firm operational efficiency relate to each other. Previous evidence on this relationship is mixed. This study delves more deeply to help identify whether context, especially supply chain characteristics provide insights into this relationship. Thus, we explore how an important external supply chain relational characteristic—supply chain concentration—moderates this relationship. We use a sample of 41,717 firm-year observations of 4772 Chinese A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2023 to investigate these relationships. The findings reveal that environmental dimensions have a significant <em>negative</em> relationship to corporate operational efficiency. Social and governance dimensions have significant <em>positive</em> relationships to corporate operational efficiency. Interestingly, there is an asymmetric moderation result. Supplier concentration significantly moderates the relationship between environmental performance and operational efficiency; customer concentration significantly moderates the relationships between both social and governance performance and operational efficiency. The study also sheds light on the relationships between contextual factors and operational efficiency, with firm age, board independence, revenue growth and financial leverage all significantly relate to corporate efficiency. The research findings provide valuable insights for practitioners. The findings also bring up additional questions for supply chain sustainability researchers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 104446"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Electric vehicle charging optimization with coordinated mobile and fixed chargers","authors":"Xiaofeng Li,&nbsp;Xinlian Yu,&nbsp;Ziyuan Pu,&nbsp;Jingxu Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104434","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104434","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mobile Chargers (MCs) enhance the flexibility and convenience of Electric Vehicle (EV) charging by enabling spatial–temporal power transfer, yet their effectiveness depends on optimal recharging strategies. This study addresses the EV charging problem using both fixed chargers (FCs) and MCs, considering the recharging of MCs at FC sites. A mixed-integer programming model is developed to integrate the operation of FCs and MCs, taking into account several practical considerations, including the time constraints of EV charging requests, the limited capacity of FCs, and the need to recharge MCs between serving EVs. A two-layer adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm is designed with problem-tailored removal and insertion operators. Computational experiment with instances constructed using real world charging data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and the tailored operators. Managerial insights into operation efficiency are also provided, especially concerning the battery size of MCs and geographic distributions of FCs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 104434"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 human-machine collaboration in metaverse communities: product vs. service focus in enhancing user immersion","authors":"Mu Yang ,&nbsp;Joseph Amankwah-Amoah ,&nbsp;Chunjia Han ,&nbsp;Brij B. Gupta","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104423","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104423","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the role of human–machine collaboration in shaping user immersion within metaverse communities, focusing on the shift between utilitarian and hedonic orientation. Using a large-scale dataset from Meta’s metaverse community forum, we employed text mining and machine learning techniques to quantify the utilitarian and hedonic dimensions within user disclosure. The findings identified specific areas under each dimension and revealed that both dimensions contribute meaningfully to immersion, but their emphasis varies across user experience levels and over time. Specifically, hedonic dimensions become more dominant among experienced users and over the product lifecycle, while utilitarian considerations are more salient for new users. Furthermore, the study identified a positive relationship between hedonic experiences and evoking resonance on the forum. The paper discusses the implications of understanding utilitarian and hedonic dimensions related to enhancing consumers’ immersion experience and optimising human–machine interactions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 104423"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carbon sinks under carbon trading system: Timing of plant tissue culture technique sharing and optimal mode selection for a manufacturer","authors":"Xiaoping Xu ,&nbsp;Jie Shu ,&nbsp;Jinyan Hou ,&nbsp;T.C.E. Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104432","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104432","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the development of modern agriculture, the plant tissue culture (PTC) technique has been applied by more and more manufacturers. We in this work consider an agricultural supply chain consisting of two manufacturers where one is a regular manufacturer and the other is a manufacturer that owns the plant tissue culture (PTC) technique (PTC manufacturer). The latter may share this technique with the former in either revenue-sharing or pre-product selling modes. The main research questions of this paper are to analyze whether to introduce the PTC technique, and the selection of revenue-sharing mode and pre-product selling mode. First, in the revenue-sharing mode, the optimal profit of the regular manufacturer adopting this technique always increases while the optimal profit of the PTC manufacturer increases (decreases) after sharing this technique at the low (high) unit carbon absorption. In the pre-product selling mode, the regular manufacturer’s optimal profit decreases (increases) after adopting this technique at the low (high) PTC quantity power, while the PTC manufacturer’s optimal profit always increases after sharing this technique. Second, at the low revenue-sharing rate, the optimal profit of the regular (PTC) manufacturer is lower (higher) in the pre-product selling mode than in the revenue-sharing mode. Nevertheless, we interestingly discover that at the high revenue-sharing rate, the optimal profit of the regular manufacturer is higher (lower) in the pre-product selling mode than in the revenue-sharing mode at low (high) unit carbon absorption. In contrast, for the PTC manufacturer, the opposite result holds. In addition, we make several extensions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 104432"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does supply chain visibility improve firm resilience: An organizational information processing theory perspective","authors":"Fu Jia ,&nbsp;Shoufeng Hu ,&nbsp;Lujie Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104428","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104428","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As disruptions and unpredictability grow in global supply chains, boosting firm resilience has emerged as a key managerial priority. This research draws upon organizational information processing theory (OIPT) to explore how supply chain visibility influences firm resilience, as well as the factors that moderate this relationship. Our dataset consists of panel data for 526 publicly listed manufacturing firms in China, capturing information on their top five suppliers and customers between 2018 and 2023. In addition, data related to supply chain visibility were compiled from the companies’ official websites. The findings demonstrate that supply chain visibility significantly enhances firm resilience. Further analysis reveals that environmental complexity, customer concentration, financial slack, and inventory slack positively moderate this relationship, while environmental dynamism exerts a negative moderating effect. Supplier concentration fails to show a notable moderating influence. This research broadens the application of OIPT and offers actionable guidance for firms aiming to strengthen their resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 104428"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Train capacity optimization under stochastic demand: A flexible composition strategy with extra-long trains","authors":"Linhuan Zhong ,&nbsp;Yang Liu ,&nbsp;Guangming Xu ,&nbsp;Wei Liu ,&nbsp;Hai Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104430","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104430","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In railway systems, the transport capacity of trains depends on the number of train compositions, which are then allocated to different OD pairs. Therefore, train composition planning is a critical capacity inventory control technique in railway revenue management. However, passenger demand for high-speed railway (HSR) exhibits a strong spatial-temporal imbalance, with significant differences between peak and off-peak periods, and also entails considerable uncertainty, directly impacting enterprise revenue. To address these challenges, this study accounts for the stochastic nature of passenger demand and proposes a flexible train composition (FLTC) strategy that integrates extra-long trains (XLTs), allowing train lengths to exceed platform lengths. This strategy allows for the flexible adaptation of train compositions to accommodate variations in passenger demand. By deploying XLTs without necessitating alterations to the current infrastructure, it enhances transport capacity during peak hours, thereby boosting operational revenue for the enterprise. Additionally, for XLTs, we propose a new operational mechanism to fully utilize their transport capacity while ensuring passenger boarding and alighting experiences, i.e., docking position control and seat allocation methods. Then, the problem studied can be formulated as a two-stage stochastic programming (SP) model, where the first stage determines the number of train compositions and the docking positions of train composition units (TCUs), and the second stage determines the seat allocation scheme based on demand. To enhance the tractability of the model, we reformulate it as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model using appropriate linearization techniques. To solve the proposed model efficiently, we develop a column generation (CG)-based solution method, thereby enabling the generation of near-optimal solutions. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, numerical experiments are conducted using both a small-scale instance and a real-world case study based on the Beijing-Shanghai HSR corridor. The computational results demonstrate that the proposed approach can significantly improve transport capacity during peak periods, thereby increasing the overall revenue of the HSR system, while also effectively accommodating the stochastic nature of passenger demand.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 104430"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mitigating resource mismatches-oriented optimal cross-regional green hydrogen supply strategy considering cost and risk","authors":"Chuandang Zhao ,&nbsp;Xiaoling Song ,&nbsp;Meng Yuan","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104433","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104433","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Low-cost green hydrogen can be produced via water electrolysis in regions with abundant renewable energy; however, the geographical mismatch between hydrogen supply and demand necessitates efficient production site and transport mode selection to ensure its cost-effectiveness and safety. This study addresses this challenge by developing the cross-regional hydrogen supply strategies optimization model under hydrogen supply costs and risks minimization goals for the government in areas with limited resources. A wind-solar-battery renewable energy system is proposed for green hydrogen production, incorporating tube trailers, liquid hydrogen trucks, and pipelines as transport options, to jointly determine optimal production site locations and transport routes. A hydrogen risk assessment method is proposed, which combines population density and transportation distance variables with a natural language processing-aided analysis of historical hydrogen accident frequencies. A case study conducted in Chongqing, China, demonstrates the model’s effectiveness through various scenario analyses. The study reveals a trade-off between cost and risk across different hydrogen supply strategies and identifies a negative power-law relationship between the distance of production sites and production costs, indicating that cost savings diminish as transport distances increase. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis is carried out to explore the uncertainties in hydrogen demand, the impacts of extreme heat weather, the technology development of tube-trailer storage and transport, and the policy support for risk and investment mitigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 104433"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Combined China-Europe Railway Express and maritime transport with subsidy and emission tax considerations","authors":"Mei-Ru Wang ,&nbsp;Zhi-Chun Li ,&nbsp;Lijun Jiang ,&nbsp;Xiaowen Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104421","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104421","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the effects of the combined China-Europe Railway Express (CERE) and maritime transport on the China-Europe cargo transport market with subsidy and emission tax considerations. The interrelationships among shippers, railway carrier, domestic liner carrier, foreign liner carrier and the social planner are described by a vertical structure model. Four types of carrier operating regimes, namely full competition, full cooperation, and the cooperation between railway carrier and domestic or foreign liner carrier, are explored and compared. The aim of the social planner is to achieve the welfare maximization of the system by optimizing the subsidies for the railway carrier and the emission taxes on the domestic and foreign liner carriers for creating a mankind community from a perspective of the shared future. The emission amounts before and after implementing the policies of the subsidies and the emission taxes are compared. The results show that: (i) the cooperation of the railway carrier and the domestic (or foreign) liner carrier reduces (or raises) the emission tax on the domestic (or foreign) liner carrier, but raises (or reduces) the subsidy for the railway carrier; (ii) the social planner tends to impose the emission tax on the domestic liner carrier for a low congestion level at the transfer port and a high substitution degree between combined CERE-maritime transport and direct waterway transport; the planner is inclined to subsidize the foreign liner carrier and the railway carrier for a low congestion level and a low substitution degree to encourage more shippers to use the low-carbon mode of the combined CERE-maritime transport; and (iii) the subsidy and emission tax policies are beneficial to emission reduction for a low congestion level and a high substitution degree. These findings provide a guidance for the Chinese and European governments to ‌promote‌ the development of the combined CERE-maritime transport mode and to control the carbon emissions of the China-Europe cargo transport market through adjusting the subsidy and emission tax policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 104421"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimal design for an urban truck-drone collaborative delivery system enhanced with relay points","authors":"Hongtai Yang ,&nbsp;Jianzhang Wu ,&nbsp;Zhaolin Zhang ,&nbsp;Xiaobo Liu ,&nbsp;Andrea D’Ariano","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104425","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104425","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the rapid expansion of e-commerce, the express sector has experienced significant growth, and most cities have developed comprehensive relay point (RP) infrastructures. While these facilities currently only support ground logistics, the advancement and adoption of drone technology offer the potential to enhance delivery efficiency. To address this, we propose a Relay Point-Enhanced Collaborative Truck-Drone Delivery Model (RPECTDDM) to leverage existing RP infrastructure for designing a more efficient ground-air integrated logistics system. By incorporating RPs for intermediate cargo transfers, the model optimizes: (i) RP selection, (ii) customer allocation between trucks and drones, and (iii) the routing of both trucks and drones. The problem is formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming model aimed at minimizing total costs, which include truck operations, drone deployment, and RP activation. A two-stage Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) algorithm is proposed to solve this computationally demanding problem. In the first stage, feasible solutions are generated using heuristic methods, while the second stage iteratively refines these solutions through destroy-and-repair operators tailored to the problem. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, achieving near-optimal solutions in reasonable computational times, even for large-scale scenarios. A real-world case study in Chengdu further highlights the advantages of the RPECTDDM, significantly reducing total costs and truck travel times compared to three benchmark models: Truck-Drone Collaborative Delivery Model (TDCDM), Relay Point Enhanced Truck Delivery Model (RPETDM), and Truck-Only Delivery Model (TODM). Specially, RPECTDDM achieves cost savings of up to 48.47 % and reduces truck travel time by 61.21 % compared to TODM. Sensitivity analyses underscore the importance of RP activation costs and drone endurance in operational planning. This study advances urban logistics by bridging the gap between theoretical models and practical implementation, offering a scalable, efficient framework for integrating trucks and drones in delivery systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 104425"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimization of urban logistics with multi-modal systems: A comprehensive study of the airship-vehicle routing problem","authors":"Ho Young Jeong ,&nbsp;Byung Duk Song","doi":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104415","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tre.2025.104415","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents a novel approach to the Airship-Vehicle Routing Problem (AVRP) with drone integration, aiming to optimize the delivery logistics in urban and rural environments. The model leverages a hybrid fleet comprising airships, ground vehicles, and drones, each with distinct operational capabilities and constraints. The airships serve as mobile hubs, deploying drones for last-mile deliveries, while ground vehicles handle bulk transportation from depots to intermediate nodes. The proposed Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model minimizes the total cost by considering the travel distances, operational costs, and delivery times for each vehicle type. The constraints ensure feasible routes for ground and aerial vehicles, adherence to capacity limits, and efficient synchronization between drones and their respective airships. Computational experiments on realistic datasets demonstrate the model’s efficacy in reducing delivery costs and improving service levels compared to traditional routing methods. This study highlights the potential of integrating advanced transportation modes to enhance logistics operations, offering significant benefits for industries reliant on timely and cost-effective deliveries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49418,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 104415"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145158084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}