Determining Optimal Routes for Marble Transport Between Turkey and France Using the Multi-Criteria Decision Making
In order to respond to increasing demand in line with the effects of globalization and the consumers’ preferences, the transportation sector has needed to focus on constantly improving itself and its efficiency. Currently, operating transportation operations through optimal transport routes have bec...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Istanbul University Press
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Transportation and Logistics |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/A75DB6D4B7624A4890C853D2C14B6506 |
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| Summary: | In order to respond to increasing demand in line with the effects of globalization and the consumers’ preferences, the transportation sector has needed to focus on constantly improving itself and its efficiency. Currently, operating transportation operations through optimal transport routes have become critical. This study attempts to determine the optimal transportation route for exporting marble from Turkey to France using multi-criteria decision-making methods. The study first reviews the literature to determine the 6 main and 18 sub-criteria that have been mentioned the most. The study submitted these criteria to groups made up of logistics company managers, operation executives, and scholars in order to get expert opinions. The study uses the program Super Decisions to create a hierarchy structure for the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and to calculate the criterion weights. The study collected information from companies providing service between Afyon and Lyon regarding the costs and transit times of the five different transportation routes that are currently used. The study then analyzed the emissions for each of these five routes using the tools from the emissions calculator software EcoTransIT. By using the criterion weights found using the AHP method, the five transportation routes were analyzed in terms of the same group using the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method to determine which route is the most appropriate. After the analysis, the study compared the various routes and selected the seaway + inland waterway intermodal transportation route as the optimal one due to its low cost and minimal transit time and emission values. |
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| ISSN: | 2459-1718 |