Defining transport logistics: a literature review and practitioner opinion based approach
Abstract
There are many concepts in the transport and logistics business: transport, logistics, transportation, forwarding, etc. There are also a number of different study programs and disciplines such as: transport economics, transport logistics, logistics management, etc. All of these titles are often related to the content of the plan, planning, organization, management and control of the movement of human, material, informational and financial flows. However, in practice, they are often correlated and misused. Therefore, it is an important task to properly define these concepts. This article, based on various scientific literature, deals with the concept of transport logistics in various disciplines and fields of research. The results of this analysis made it possible to identify that there is no unified logistic term. Therefore, a qualitative study was also used. The purpose of this study is to identify the concept of transport/logistics companies in the Baltic States as the concept is treated in business. The results of the research have shown that the concept of transport logistics is also understood differently. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to formulate the definition of transport logistics on the basis of the results of the scientific literature analysis and qualitative research.
Keyword : transport, logistics, definition, database, literature review
How to Cite
Topolšek, D., Čižiūnienė, K., & Cvahte Ojsteršek, T. (2018). Defining transport logistics: a literature review and practitioner opinion based approach. Transport, 33(5), 1196-1203. https://doi.org/10.3846/transport.2018.6965
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Lindell, M. K.; Whitney, D. J. 2001. Accounting for common method variance in crosssectional research designs, Journal of Applied Psychology 86(1): 114–121. https://doi.org/10.1037//00219010.86.1.114
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MullerJentsch, D. 2002. Transport Policies for the Euro-Mediterranean Free-Trade Area: An Agenda for Multimodal Transport Reform in the Southern Mediterranean. World Bank Technical Paper No. 527. Washington, DC, US. 183 p. Available from Internet: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15221
Mundy, R. A.; Langley, C. J.; Gibson, T. E. 1977. Industry evaluation of a transportation/logistics curriculum, Transportation Journal 17(1): 33–39.
Newell, J. P.; Cousins, J. J. 2015. The boundaries of urban metabolism: towards a politicalindustrial ecology, Progress in Human Geography 39(6): 702–728. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132514558442
Noyons, E. 2001. Bibliometric mapping of science in a policy context, Scientometrics 50(1): 83–98. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005694202977
Nunnally, J. C. 1984. Psychometric Theory. McGrawHill.
Persson, O.; Danell, R.; Scheider, J. W. 2009. How to use Bibexcel for various types of bibliometric analysis, in F. Åström, R. Danell, B. Larsen, J. Schneider (Eds.). Celebrating Scholarly Communication Studies: a Festschrift for Olle Persson at His 60th Birthday, 9–24.
Polites, G. L.; Watson, R. T. 2009. Using social network analysis to analyze relationships among IS journals, Journal of the Association for Information Systems 10(8): 595–636. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00206
RamosRodriguez, A.R.; RuízNavarro, J. 2004. Changes in the intellectual structure of strategic management research: a bibliometric study of the Strategic Management Journal, 1980–2000, Strategic Management Journal 25(10): 981–1004. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.397
Rushton, A.; Croucher, P.; Baker, P. 2014. The The Handbook of Logistics and Distribution Management: Understanding the Supply Chain. Kogan Page. 720 p.
Small, H. 1973. Co‐citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 24(4): 265–269. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630240406
Solomon, M. M. 1987. Algorithms for the vehicle routing and scheduling problems with time window constraints, Operations Research 35(2): 254–265. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.35.2.254
Steenken, D.; Voß, S.; Stahlbock, R. 2004. Container terminal operation and operations research – a classification and literature review, OR Spectrum 26(1): 3–49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002910030157z
Toth, P.; Vigo, D. 2002. The Vehicle Routing Problem. SIAM – Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9780898718515
Tseng, Y.Y.; Yue, W. L.; Taylor, M. A. P. 2005. The role of transportation in logistics chain, Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies 5: 1657–1672.
White, H. D. 2003. Pathfinder networks and author cocitation analysis: a remapping of paradigmatic information scientists, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 54(5): 423–434. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.10228
White, H. D.; Wellman, B.; Nazer, N. 2004. Does citation reflect social structure? Longitudinal evidence from the “Globenet” interdisciplinary research group, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 55(2): 111–126. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.10369
Wong, C. W. Y.; Lai, K.H.; Cheng, T. C. E. 2009a. Complementarities and alignment of information systems management and supply chain management, International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics 1(2): 156–171. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTL.2009.024493
Wong, C. W. Y.; Lai, K.H.; Ngai, E. W. T. 2009b. The role of supplier operational adaptation on the performance of ITenabled transport logistics under environmental uncertainty, International Journal of Production Economics 122(1): 47–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.12.023
Wong, C. W. Y.; Lai, K.H.; Lun, Y. H. V.; Cheng, T. C. E. 2012. A study on the antecedents of supplier commitment in support of logistics operations, International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics 4(1): 5–16. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTL.2012.044132
Wooldrige, M.; Jennings, N. R. 1995. Intelligent agents: theory and practice, The Knowledge Engineering Review 10(2): 115–152. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888900008122
Wooldridge, M. 2002. An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems. Wiley. 348 p.
Yu, C.; Davis, C.; Dijkema, G. 2013. Understanding the evolution of industrial symbiosis research, Journal of Industrial Ecology 18(2): 280–293. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12073