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Download or read book Handbook of Logistics and Supply Chain Management written by Ann M. Brewer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains commissioned refereed papers that cover the main elements of transport logistics. The authors were selected from around the world and asked to provide critiques of their subject areas as well as a review of the state of the art and case study examples.

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Download or read book Tables Rondes CEMT Le transport routier de marchandises pour compte propre en Europe written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-18 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le transport routier de marchandises pour compte propre assure une part importante des transports terrestres en Europe. En tonnages transportés, son activité représente, selon les pays européens, entre deux et cinq fois celle des transports ...

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Download or read book Aspects sociaux du transport routier written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le séminaire, qui s’est tenu à Paris en décembre 1998, a été un forum de discussion particulièrement intéressant puisqu'il a permis de rassembler la communauté scientifique internationale et les instances en charge de la préparation des décisions ...

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Download or read book Analyse de la formation des prix pour le transport routier de marchandises transports int rieurs longue distance written by Patrick Le Maire and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les prix du Transport Routier de Marchandises ont été administrés jusqu'en 1988. Le tarif obligatoire était administré par les pouvoirs publics. Le Centre National Routier, organisme professionnel était chargé de la surveillance des prix, par l'intermédiaire d'un corps de contrôleurs chargés de vérifier que les prix réellement pratiqués n'étaient pas inférieurs au tarif de référence. La libéralisation des prix a tiré ceux-ci vers le bas. Ce mouvement a été amplifié par une offre de transport abondante et mal contrôlée. L'évolution des prix de revient a, au contraire, montré des augmentations liées essentiellement à deux facteurs : 1) l'évolution des prix du carburant, 2) l'évolution des coûts salariaux. L'objet de notre recherche est de comparer sur une étude de trente mois (entre les mois de Juillet 1995 et Décembre 1997) les évolutions des prix pratiqués, de la formation de ces prix en fonction des différentes variables explicatives possibles (distance, poids, etc.), et des prix de revient. Nous avons mis en évidence une très légère progression des prix. Cette évolution globale masque deux évolutions différentes : 1) les prix des transports directs (facturés directement aux clients) augmente d'environ 2,5% sur la période, 2) les prix des transports affrétés stagnent, alors que les distances augmentent et les poids diminuent. Les évolutions des prix de revient sont très difficiles à évaluer, les seules données disponibles, celles du C.N.R. ne nous paraissant pas fiables. Cependant, une augmentation de l'ordre de 4% paraît vraisemblable. Dans une recherche, actuellement en cours, nous nous efforçons de reconstituer les séries des prix de revient depuis 1991. Les évolutions conduisent à un problème économique à court terme. Les accords récents entre les syndicats patronaux et les syndicats des chauffeurs routiers, s'ils sont réellement appliqués, conduisent, mécaniquement, à des augmentations sensibles des coûts salariaux. Les marges actuelles ne permettront pas, dans le respect de la législation en vigueur, d'absorber cette augmentation des coûts. La seule solution, pour un nombre important d'entreprises de transport, surtout les plus petites, semble être des gains de productivité, dont certains pourraient être illicites (non respect des temps de repos, des temps de conduite), mettant ainsi en danger l'ensemble de la population des automobilistes.

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