Author: Jean-Paul Rodrigue

Updated a page where the concept of asynchrony in freight distribution is discussed. The purpose of warehouses and distribution centers is to offer a buffer structure allowing to reconcile a variety of asynchrony factors.

Explaining the main differences between a warehouse and a distribution center. These two terms are often confused.

The shift in retail logistics that took place in the last two decades.

Added a page briefly resuming the set of logistical activities supporting containerization. Moving a box requires a complex organizational and physical structure.

Added a page explaining the major coordination mechanisms the favor the integration of transport systems.

Added a page discussing the main differences between intermodal and transmodal connectivity. Each take place using specific terminals and for well defined purposes aiming at ensuring the connectivity of complex transportation networks.

There are now one vehicle per seven people around the world and an annual car production of around 70 million vehicles per year.

My latest paper has been published by Geojournal: “The geography of maritime ranges: interfacing global maritime shipping networks with Hinterlands“. It tries to define bounded geographical regions serviced by maritime transportation.

Trying to articulate the four major factors that influence airport traffic; demand pattern, network connectivity, competing airports and physical capacity.