Wouter Dewulf

University of Antwerp | UA · Department of Transport and Regional Economics

Supply chain planning requires decision-making at all levels, especially in the new normal of intervened supply networks. The integration of strategic network design and operational routing decisions has been widely studied in the literature as the location-routing problem (LRP). However, the LRP does not consider the differences in the planning ho...

Airlines have implemented various management systems to avoid different risks but without considering interoperability or integration. This results in a lack of a holistic view and a counterproductive and isolated approach to managing different risks. Therefore, this article proposes a newly designed model to have an integrated system for airlines...

Supply chain management includes strategic, tactical, and operational decisions for long, medium, and short-term planning. Strategic decisions, such as network design, and operational decisions, such as last-mile routing, have mutual implications. Therefore, modelling them separately can lead to sub-optimal solutions. The integrated modelling of th...

This paper aims to identify gaps in the literature and present a future research agenda for investigations on regional airports. The research topics appearing from the systematic literature review are linked to the roles that regional airports have held and currently hold. In this way, challenges and research gaps that deserve extra attention are i...

Airlines’ principal focus these days is on managing safety risks. However, multiple management systems are established individually to manage other risks without any form of interoperability to function as one integrated management system, to have a holistic view of the different risks in an organisation. This study will review if an integrated man...

This paper estimates and analyses the air cargo demand and supply imbalances between large geographical regions based on newly collected demand and supply data. Due to the need for more data for academics and the industry, and the lesser research interest compared to its passenger counterpart, limited empirical research on air cargo market dynamics...

Reducing carbon and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a major challenge in the transportation and logistics sector. This issue is still a considerable challenge, especially in the cold supply chain for the food and beverage, e-commerce, and pharma last-mile segment. This paper investigates existing research to assess the published literature,...

Sustainability in distribution networks is currently the focus of study at institutional, academic, and commercial levels. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is on all the programmatic agendas, and the goals are clear for years toward carbon neutrality. As one of the main polluting sectors and growing trends with e-commerce, transport must align its...

Safety has always been paramount to the success of an airline's business model. Aircraft accidents can alter the public perception of the safety of a particular aircraft type and thereby threaten the airframe manufacturer's success. This chapter analyzes the effect of accidents and fatal accidents on aircraft manufacturers' competition. We provide...

Today's companies are transporting and delivering perishables and manufactured goods in a more timely and efficient manner than ever before through air cargo solutions. New technologies that provide information during air shipments are transforming how companies do business and allowing them to stay ahead of the competition in their industries. As...

This paper proposes a business model typology based on factor analysis of mixed data sourced from the 2016 Air Traffic Management Cost Effectiveness (ACE) benchmarking report, European air navigation service provider (ANSP) websites and annual reports. It provides ANSP management insight into the key strategic business model decisions to be made, t...

This paper examines the current organisation of Hotel-Restaurant-Café/Catering (Ho.Re.Ca.) logistics in medieval structured cities from a microeconomic perspective. The paper aims to distinguish Ho.Re.Ca. specific cost generators and to provide different stakeholders with guidelines on improving the efficiency and sustainability of delivery operati...

For years, many shoppers have been enjoying buying very cheap goods online, mainly from Chinese online sellers. The Chinese e-commerce platforms mainly rely on very cheap shipping rates through China Post, which uses the worldwide postal network for delivery to the consumer’s home. This may end soon because of four significant events that will be h...

This paper assesses the existence of economies of scale and cost complementarities in the European air navigation services (ANS) industry to provide policymakers and air navigation service providers (ANSPs) insight into the economic viability of possible industry-led consolidation and unbundling opportunities. While previous studies using parametri...

E-commerce has become a real game-changer in the air cargo industry and is forecasted to be the main growth driver in the following years. Airlines, forwarders, integrators and airports are trying to increase their market share in this growing market and hence develop strategies to attract as much e-commerce activities as possible. This paper inves...

Historically, airlines and airports considered air cargo as a by-product. However, by looking for additional sources of revenue, airlines and airports became aware of the potential of air cargo. In this study, the competitiveness of European airports with respect to air cargo will be discussed. The relevant characteristics determining the competiti...

Purpose: Policy implementation in the logistics sector might drive unexpected side-effects which sometimes undermine the performance of key economic activities of logistics operators, especially in areas such as transport service, sustainability of operations, etc. Especially for the latter, there is a lack of understanding how the sustainability p...

The growth of e-commerce is accompanied by an increasing distribution of parcels in cities resulting in externalities like traffic congestion or emissions. As a consequence, different delivery concepts like bike deliveries or delivery points have been suggested. Naturally, companies will only accept these changes, if they do not result in higher co...

Supply chains, logistics and freight have been facing increasingly complex challenges posed by transitions in economic structures, urbanization, city design and transport systems, as well as by the externalities associated with logistics activities in urban areas. This has driven a great deal of research recently. Yet, there are no sufficient contr...

The last mile has been characterised as the most expensive and complicated part of the supply chain, featuring negative impacts on pollution and congestion in densely populated areas. The arrival of e-commerce has accentuated the number of individual home deliveries, increasing the flows in the last-mile. Investigating how to improve the efficiency...

Internal costs, external costs, retail, supply chain, ABC

Comparative analysis of innovative retail logistics concepts applied in urban areas using external cost components

This chapter examines the logistics behind Hotel-Restaurant-Café/Catering (Ho.Re.Ca.) deliveries in medieval structured cites. These cities are characterised by their sporadic growth pattern around important buildings or squares (Marshall and Garrick 2010). The objective of this chapter is twofold. In the first part, an extensive problem descriptio...

While some research has been done on passenger airlines strategy, the strategies of air cargo carriers have hardly been researched. This paper analyses and compares the strategies of air cargo carriers. Therefore, a typology of management strategies for both combination and full cargo airlines has been developed, in which the various strategy choic...