Algorithm for the assessment of heavyweight and oversize cargo transportation routes

Abstract

The improvement of transportation systems and technologic equipment leads to changing technical capabilities of this equipment. With the development of technologies, industrial development is also inevitable, resulting in correspondingly increasing need of transportation of HeavyWeight and OverSize (HW/OS) cargo. The application of a systematic approach in HW/OS cargo transportation processes allows reducing costs of delivery of such a cargo several times, which leads to a dramatic change of economic development and investment attraction conditions. Thus creating a system of criteria for the selection and assessment of HW/OS routes, which would allow selecting the most appropriate route of transportation in terms of cost and time, is expedient for this reason. The algorithm for the assessment of HW/OS cargo transportation routes will be drawn up in this article. This algorithm enables an objective evaluation of HW/OS transportation processes comparing different modes of transport, route segments, cargo transportation and cargo handling technology, and it can be practically applied to any territory.

Keywords:

• heavyweight and oversize cargo
• transportation route
• route selection
• route assessment
• economics
• route evaluation criteria
• delivery costs

JEL Classification:

• R40
• R41
• R42
• O18

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Notes on contributors

Artūras Petraška

Artūras PETRAŠKA. Doctor of Technological Sciences, Associate Professor in the Department of Logistics and Transport Management of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. His research interest includes oversize and heavy-weight cargo transportation by road, transport management. He is also the Head of Transport Department in the JSC “Transvelas”.

Kristina Čižiūnienė

Kristina ČIŽIŪNIENĖ. Doctor of Social Sciences, Associated Professor in the Department of Logistics and Transport Management of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Her research interest includes transport and logistics management, economics, technology, human resource management, transportation etc. She has project preparation and management experience.

Aldona Jarašūnienė

Aldona JARAŠŪNIENĖ. Doctor of Technological Sciences, Professor in the Department of Logistics and Transport Management of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Her research interest includes intelligent transport systems, transport management, logistics, warehouse and inventory management.

Pavlo Maruschak

Pavlo MARUSCHAK. Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Industrial Automation of Ternopil Ivan Pul’uj National Technical University, Ukraine. His research interest includes transport engineering and management, main gas and oil pipeline transport, air transport, sea transport, etc. He has successfully participated in international and national sponsored research projects and grants.

Olegas Prentkovskis

Olegas PRENTKOVSKIS. Doctor of Technological Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Transport Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania. Editor-in-Chief of the research journal TRANSPORT. His research interest includes transport engineering, traffic safety, transportation, logistics, transport management, etc. He is a Visiting Professor at various universities in Latvia, Ukraine, Russia and has successfully participated in national sponsored research projects and grants.