First Cost Calculation Methods for Road Freight Transport Activity

Kovács, György

doi:10.1515/ttj-2017-0010

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“…Transport is specific as it realises performances not included in the price (Kovacs, 2017). The point is that the vehicle not only drives with the load but also performs the transfer from the place of unloading of the freight to the place of loading the new freight (Lada et al, 2016).…”

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“…Transportation companies seek to gain a competitive advantage by optimising their costs (Krasnyanskiy & Penshin, 2016). They use cost calculations, which divide the costs into variable and fixed costs, calculating each transport separately but taking only costs connected with transport into account (Ferrari, 2016;Kovacs, 2017). However, the routes utilisation coefficient adjusts costs, and it aims to take the possibility of the return rides without a load into consideration.…”

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New paradigms of quantification of economic efficiency in the transport sector

Poliak

Švábová

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Research background: In determining the prices in road transport, carriers usually use the calculations based on a so-called routes utilisation coefficient, which allows the carrier to also take the possibility of the return rides without load into account. Currently, it is usually used as a constant from the interval from zero to one. Purpose of the article: Considering a different offer of return transport from individual European Union (EU) countries, it can be assumed that the routes utilisation coefficient should have different values because there is a varying level of non-zero probability that the vehicle will return without a load. This study therefore proposes a new approach to determining the value of this coefficient based on transport direction. The study also aims to identify clusters of EU countries, for which the common value of the coefficient should be set. Methods: The Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test was used to verify the assumption of the differences among the means of transport offers. Cluster analysis was used to identify the aforementioned groups of countries. This analysis is based on real data on transport offers to Slovakia from 18 different EU countries. Findings & value added: The results of the analysis can also be used in other EU countries because if significant differences in transport offers to Slovakia exist in individual countries, there is a reasonable assumption that this conclusion will also be valid in other countries. The analysis demonstrated that it is more appropriate to use the routes utilisation coefficient with various values, dependent on the transport direction. For the transport companies, implementation of the obtained results into practice is beneficial to increase their competitiveness through the more precise setting of transport prices, but also to the optimisation of the transport price itself with regard to the expected costs.

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New paradigms of quantification of economic efficiency in the transport sector

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“…The road transportation cost model only considers the mobility and infrastructure costs calculated from the available economic data. The methods and formulations for calculating railway and road transportation costs can be found in the following literature: (Kovács, 2017), (Bykadorov, 2017), (Müller & Benassi, 2014). In this paper, the simple formulas from Müller and Benassi's paper are used (Müller & Benassi, 2014).…”

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The coal origin-destination matrix analysis and multimodal transportation cost modelling in the Yangtze River region, China

Wang

2018

Systems Science & Control Engineering

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The railway-road-inland waterway (IWW) transportation network in the Yangtze River basin was extracted using ArcGIS software and the triangular mesh covered the simulated region was generated using GIS software. The population density and gross domestic product were chosen as the characteristic economic variables, which were interpolated spatially into the mesh to analyse the origin-destination (OD) matrix of the coal transport network. Then, the multimodal transportation cost model was developed considering the detailed cost functions of railway, road and IWW. Finally, the coal transportation cost under different transportation allocation scenarios was calculated and compared to investigate the advantages and potential of the multimodal transportation mode in the Yangtze River basin. The cost analysis about the multimodal transportation system showed that the IWW mode has great potential to decrease the transportation cost of the coal within the OD matrix although the railway mode took at least 80% of the total transportation load.

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“…Many researchers are actively developing analytical areas of work (Shaygan et al, 2017;Kovács, 2017), continuously improving and honing tools for monitoring customer preferences. Leading companies understand that such studies most effectively provide the process of long-term development.…”

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Strategic Planning of Cars Quality in Operation

Aydarov

Kozlovskiy

Vakhnina

et al. 2019

Transport and Telecommunication Journal

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Attainment of high competitiveness indicators of products and services is a natural goal of each enterprise. This goal stems from the desire of stakeholders to ensure the continuous, long-term development of a company and the high performance of labour results. However, the market has leaders and outsiders for various reasons. And the outsiders can be decently prepared in organizational and technical terms. But something prevents them from successfully developing. In addition, a decision of methodological and analytical tasks is not cheap. Competent experts, relevant technical and technological support of the process, and, most importantly, the conditions for creative work are required. It is necessary effective management decisions based on the detailed analysis of warranty period of cars operation for solving main problems related to the quality and products competitiveness. Similar analytical activity is helping to improve the life circle processes, creates the opportunities to enhance customer satisfaction and sustainable development of automakers. The research has updated a problem of design and realization effective analytical tools for an appointment the quality objectives for the automotive corporations. This paper presents the results of development and implementation of the new approach to the strategic planning of products competitiveness and setting the quality objectives by the example of automotive industry.

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First Cost Calculation Methods for Road Freight Transport Activity

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

New paradigms of quantification of economic efficiency in the transport sector

New paradigms of quantification of economic efficiency in the transport sector

The coal origin-destination matrix analysis and multimodal transportation cost modelling in the Yangtze River region, China

Strategic Planning of Cars Quality in Operation

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