Transport and distribution

Author: Xu Tianliang
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: With technological advancements and improvements in logistics management, the function of creating time utility for goods through storage in modern logistics systems is weakening. Moreover, the rational organization of transportation, especially the implementation of just-in-time delivery, has further accelerated this weakening trend, thereby highlighting the increasingly prominent role and greater impact of transportation and distribution in logistics systems. People are also paying more attention to transportation and distribution. Reducing logistics costs through the rational organization of transportation and distribution has become a major focus of modern logistics research. The book is titled "Transportation and Distribution" for two reasons: first, based on the close relationship between them; second, to provide a comprehensive explanation of the spatial utility function in logistics, as the function of creating spatial utility for goods is incomplete with only transportation or only distribution. The entire book systematically elaborates on and researches the theory and methods of transportation and distribution from four levels: concepts and principles, operational models, optimization methods, and organizational management.