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"Korošec vihti bič nad železničarji" (Stavka železničarjev leta 1920 in minister za promet Anton Korošec)

Author(s): Mateja Ratej / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 1/2010

In the following discussion the author focuses on the role of Anton Korošec in the railway strike of April 1920, when as a Head of the Slovenian People's Party he was the Minister of Transport in Stojan Protić's government. After the government of the Kingdom of SHS abolished the collective labour agreement for transport workers, in April 1920 transport all over the state was brought to a halt by a railway strike. The workers on strike were joined by the communists, who saw the mobilisation of the workers as a strong political potential. In the years after the establishment of the Kingdom, the communists represented an influential political factor. In November of the same year, after the Constituent Assembly elections, they became the third most powerful party in the country. On 24 April the strike on the streets of Ljubljana transcended any democratic norms. After the police and military intervention, 13 workers died on the Zaloška cesta street. A few days before that, at the assembly of the Slovenian People's Party confidants in Ljubljana, Korošec had cautioned against the danger of the communist movement, while during the strike he refused to communicate with the railway representatives, claiming that the strike was illegal - that is, unannounced.

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125 DE ANI DE LA INAUGURAREA PODULUI "REGELE CAROL I" PESTE DUNĂRE, DE LA CERNAVODĂ

Author(s): George M. CROITORU / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2020

The complex of bridges and viaducts of the Fetești - Cernavodă railway was inaugurated on 1895, September 14, has a total length of 4087.95m and was the longest continental Europe’s bridge, also the third longest in the world at the time. The ”King Carol I” railway bridge, over Danube from Cernavodă, is the representative construction of this complex. The designer and chief engineer of the construction of the bridge and viaducts complex is the engineer Anghel Saligny (18541925), professor at the National School of Bridges and Roads in Bucharest, the most important personality in the Romanian history of civil engineering. The bridge is cantilever type, it has five openings (a central opening of 190m and four current openings of 140m each) with a total length of 750m. The most important innovations in this structure included the use of mild steel for the bridge deck and new system of cantilever beams (Gerber beams) for the suprastructure. The total length of a cantilever beam is 240m. This bridge is one of the representative constructions in Romania, being classified as an architectural monument of national interest.

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155 de ani de la înființarea „Școlii de Ponți și Șosele, Mine și Arhitectură” din București

Author(s): George M. CROITORU / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

After the union of Moldova and Wallachia in 1859, during the reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866) bases of the new modern Romanian state were created, including by inaugurating new institutions and adopting several laws and regulations according to the French model. One of these institutions is the School of Bridges and Roads, Mines and Architecture from Bucharest, founded in 1864, October 1st. The school regulations were elaborated by the engineer Constantin Aninoşanu (1831-1880) and the first director was the architect Alexandru Costinescu (1814-1872), both being members of the Technical Council of the Ministry of Public Works. It was the first technical high school within the new modern and unified Romanian state. Through its rigorous organization, significant value of the teachers and the high level of teaching, the School of Bridges and Roads, Mines and Architecture represents an important stage in the evolution and future development of the Romanian higher technical education.

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25 години научно и образователно сътрудничество между Департамент „Природни науки“ на Нов български университет и Институт за космически изследвания и технологии на Българска академия на науките

Author(s): Garo Mardirossian,Ralitza Berberova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The paper presents the results of the scientific and educational cooperation in the field of earth sciences and ecology between the Department of Natural Sciences at New Bulgarian University (NBU) and the Space Research and Technology Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (SRTI-BAS) for the period 1996-2021.

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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF REVERSE LOGISTICS IMPLEMENTATION FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT IN POLAND AND OTHER EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES

Author(s): Anetta Zielińska / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

Reverse logistics represents a current research area, in both theoretical and empirical terms. In Polish practice, reverse logistics refers to a narrow approach within the framework of waste management. Enterprises perceive their success and the source of long-term economic and social benefits in introducing new, pro-ecological solutions at various stages of the supply chain through implementing reverse logistics. The purpose of the article is to present the potential of implementing reverse logistics in view of the growing threats resulting from waste. A multidimensional comparative analysis is used in the study, based on the indicators describing waste management as an important element of reverse logistics for the European Union Member States (the EUROSTAT data). As a result, the EU countries are divided into those placed at the forefront and the ones which cannot handle the level of reverse logistics implementation through waste management. Stemming from the conducted analysis, attention was drawn to the unfavourable position of Poland in the implementation of waste management, which is manifested in the level of reverse logistics implementation.

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A comparison of logistics infrastructure development level of European Union countries using TOPSIS and VIKOR methods

Author(s): Grzegorz Koszela,Michał Gostkowski,Luiza Ochnio,Vassilis Kostoglou / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The purpose of the research was to compare the logistics and logistic infrastructure development level in EU countries. To evaluate overall rank of each country in term of that traits, it was used eight variables which describes logistic characteristics. In this purpose, two of the multi-criteria models of decision making: a Multicriteria Optimization (VIKOR) and Compromise Solution and a Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) were applied and the results obtained by those two methods were compared. The results showed that VIKOR is more preferable method in comparison to TOPSIS methods and the countries where the logistic is developed the most according to the scores in created rankings are Germany, France and Poland.

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A Conceptual Approach to Forming a Transport and Logistics Cluster as a Component of the Region’s Innovative Infrastructure (on the Example of Prydniprovsky Economic Region of Ukraine)

Author(s): Viacheslav Liashenko,Sergey Ivanov,Nataliia Trushkina / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The analysis of the dynamics of the regional transport and logistics system of the Prydniprovsky economic region revealed many barriers to its effective functioning, which were divided into 10 groups: political, institutional, innovative, investment and financial, information, environmental, tariff, infrastructure, customs, and logistics. The forecast estimation of the indicators characterizing the development of the regional transport and logistic system in the Prydniprovsky economic region by using economic and mathematical tools was carried out, and on this basis tendencies of its functioning were revealed. It should be noted that forecast estimates should be considered forecasts-warnings. That is, provided that the insignificant level of labor productivity is maintained, as well as its reduction, the low return on capital investments in the coming years can significantly reduce the volume of transport (rail and road) in the Prydniprovsky economic region. Based on the regional development strategies of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kirovohrad regions generalized, their shortcomings in creating a transport and logistics cluster were identified. In order to transform the regional innovation ecosystem, a conceptual approach to forming the transport and logistics cluster as an element of innovation infrastructure based on reasonable specialization was substantiated. It was proved that this structure should take the form of a partnership of business structures, research institutions, higher education institutions, institutions of logistics and innovation infrastructure, and government agencies. The structural scheme of interaction between the transport and logistics cluster and the innovation ecosystem was proposed to achieve the strategic goal of "Innovative development of the region on the basis of smart specialization" while implementing the strategic documents for the period till 2027. It was established that the development and implementation of basic conceptual provisions for forming a transport and logistics cluster would create appropriate conditions for increasing the volume and quality of transport and logistics services, for intensifying innovative development and implementing a qualitatively new regional pattern of sustainable development of the Prydniprovsky economic region, which must meet modern requirements for managing economic systems.

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A Conceptual Model of Customer Satisfaction: Moderating Effects of Price Sensitivity and Quality Seekers in the Airline Industry

Author(s): Harith Yas Khudhair,Ahmad Jusoh,Abbas Mardani,Khalil Md Nor / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

Passenger satisfaction and loyalty are crucial for success in the airline industry. To achieve customer satisfaction and loyalty, it is important that airlines provide high-quality services. This paper examines different elements of service quality in the airline industry, including the moderating effects of price sensitivity and quality seekers on the level of passenger satisfaction. The moderating effect of price sensitivity on passenger satisfaction has received less consideration in the existing literature. Service quality has been divided into three main categories: preflight, in-flight, and post-flight services. This paper provides a conceptual framework for assessing the moderating effects of price sensitivity and service quality on passenger satisfaction. The study was conducted by performing a literature review of existing studies of the topic and related issues. Information was obtained from journal articles. The literature was reviewed for accuracy, relevancy, and other validating elements. The findings reveal that the service quality of all three categories has a positive effect on passenger satisfaction. The results indicate that passenger satisfaction consequentially translates to passenger loyalty (Elkington, 2004). The findings indicate that price sensitivity and quality seekers have a significant impact on the relationship between service quality and the level of passenger satisfaction. High price sensitivity reduces the positive effects of service quality on passenger satisfaction. Low price sensitivity increases the positive effects of service quality on passenger satisfaction. Existing literature agrees that customer satisfaction is subjective and varies across consumers. Therefore, analyzing the correlation between service quality and satisfaction has been a complex task (Briliana, 2018).

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A Dream of Safe Railway Systems

Author(s): Rosa Stottele,Alina Cuznețov,Miriam Müller,Sebastian Götz,Maxi Gerbig,Tine Lehmann / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In 2016, a total of 1.787 significant railway accidents were reported in the EU, in which a total of 964 people were killed. Although the number of railway accidents and deaths have been decreasing in the past years, Peter Grüne is certain that there is still a lot of room for improvement. Peter Grüne is the CEO of Grüne Industry Electronics, a company producing devices managing the electronic potential in railways to avoid erosion, eventually reducing the number of accidents. He believes that railways are the future of transportation and is keen on improving the safety of millions of people and goods transported daily in Europe.

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A GIS and multi‐criteria‐based analysis and ranking of transportation zones of Vilnius city

Author(s): Marius Jakimavičius,Marija Burinskienė / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

Fixing the accessibility is a standard issue of transport analysis, which can be of interest to many socioeconomic applications. In the paper we propose and discuss accessibility and other indicators-based urban transport system analysis and GIS (geographic information systems) calculation method for indicating problematic transportation zones in Vilnius city. The main parameter is time-based accessibility from/to the central part of Vilnius and other transport zones in the city. Created GIS application computes the ranks for transport zones of Vilnius city according to accessibility and Vilnius statistics in these zones (street network density in city zones, number of working places, number of equipped parking places, number of attractive objects in transportation zones). The GIS decision support system is based on 2 calculation methods Topsis (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) and SAW (Simple Additive Weighting). Application of transportation zones analysis improves the quality of basic environment statistics and fills many data gaps related to urban statistics, providing information to decision-makers and the general public concerning key factors determining the state of urban transportation environment. This paper outlines criteria and models used in Vilnius to develop urban transportation indicators and the reasons why the selected indicators represent the first important step to achieve a comprehensive system of indicators of urban transportation sustainability in Vilnius city. This model could be integrated in systems of urban transport planning and sustainable development planning.

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A LITERATURE REVIEW REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS IN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

Author(s): Alexandra TUDORICA,Cristian Silviu Bănacu,Sofia Elena COLESCA / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

The evaluation, selection or prioritization of transport infrastructure projects requires a complex decision-making approach. This complexity arises due to the competing nature of criteria - socio-economic, technical, political, environmental, resulting often into conflict analysis (Thomopoulos et al., 2009). The purpose of this article is to review the available literature in order to identify the specific multi-criteria decision-making techniques/methods, as well as the criteria employed in the context of transport infrastructure. Moreover, as we were interested to assess if these criteria evolved along the time to meet the transport infrastructure policy goals, in the nowadays context of green transition a special attention is given to the environmental criteria and its indicators. The timing of this review, providing an overview of the criteria used for the assessment of transport infrastructure projects, seems to be suitable as the new European Union’s Multiannual Financial Framework (2021-2027) is pushing forward for the twin green and digital transitions, enforcing the climate dimension. An extensive list of environmental indicators is provided, as well.

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A LOOK AT THE TRANSPORT OF PERSONS UNDER NATIONAL LAW, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Author(s): Alina-Mihaela Tirică / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Against the background of the current circumstances caused by the coronavirus pandemic, this study brings to light the field of transport, more precisely the transport of persons in domestic traffic. It is a well-known fact that all areas of social activity have suffered, and others are still experiencing it, the transport sector being equally affected, but with a tendency to recover. The study is intended to be a small gateway to optimism, since, after a brief analysis of the concept of “transport”, including its classifications, and a research into the freedom of movement, within the limits it can bear, it is reflected the measures and rules set out in this field, making an overview of these legal rules, according to each type of transport, classified according to the modes of transport used: road, railway, sea and air.

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A New Approach to Comprehensive Assessing the Service Competitiveness of Motor Transport Enterprises Specializing in Municipal Passenger Transportation

Author(s): Svitlana Moroz / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2020

The author's method for assessing the level of the service competitiveness of motor transport enterprises specializing in municipal passenger transportation is developed and tested. A new approach to the formation of group composition and directly indicators of service competitiveness is offered. The author's method envisaged a combination of qualitative and quantitative aspects of the research, since the indicators' values were obtained as a result of the expert survey. During their elaboration the method of principal components was used to determine the weights of individual indicators and groups of the service competitiveness of motor transport enterprises.

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A new corridor, a new impetus

Author(s): Ali Hajizade / Language(s): English Issue: 06 (49)/2021

The South Caucasus has serious potential to become a full-fledged logistics hub of regional significance. While opposition to developing a new corridor remains, the potential benefits for all countries in the South Caucasus and beyond will outweigh any costs or perceived risks.

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A new method for calculating mirror data asymmetry in international trade

Author(s): Iwona Markowicz,Paweł Baran / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

Research background: Some statistics are of a bilateral nature. This is how foreign trade data is organized. They are recorded both in the supplier and recipient countries, hence they are called mirror data. The data recorded at both trading partner countries are not the same for different reasons. Such differences between data on the same groups of transactions are often referred to as the asymmetry of mirror data. The information about the value of the flows of goods are of great importance in economic analyses and therefore their quality is particularly important. Purpose of the article: The aim of this paper is to present a new measure of data asymmetry — the aggregated quantity index with value-based weights. Methods: The proposed measure combines the quantity and the value of turnover in individual trade relations. Such a measure makes it possible to eliminate basic deficiencies in value-based measures, while considering the specificity of trade in individual countries. The proposed measure of data asymmetry was confronted with several measures present in the literature and previously used by the Authors. The numerical example uses Comext data on intra-Community trade in 2017 provided by Eurostat. Findings & Value added: The proposed measure performs better than all the previously used data asymmetry indices. It is to some extent immune to exchange rate differences and inconsistencies resulting from the inclusion of transport and insurance costs in the value of goods. In addition, it gives lower weights to unimportant trade directions than other data asymmetry indices. Since the new index has proved to be better than the measures previously used, it is worth applying to those trade relations where the data are not derived from customs documents, but from declarations made by businesses, as in the case of intra-Community trade.

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A New Organizational Agility Assessment Approach Applied in the Logistics Industry

Author(s): Zeynep GERGİN,Mehmet Ak,Eren ÇOLAK,Mustafa KAYALAR,Can Deniz YAVAŞOĞLU / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Purpose – Today, the variable and numerous demands from customers, changing market conditions and the depletion of resources have made agile working methods more necessary than in the past. In this study, it is aimed to increase the awareness of the concept of agility in companies and to accelerate the agile transformation processes. Design/Methodology/Approach – In this research study, a new measurement scale is developed to assess the current agility levels of the companies operating in logistics sector. The new instrument measures the agility levels of seven business processes for eight components of agility and an aggregated level for company agility score is identified. The detailed questionnaire, which is composed of 51 questions, is applied to 4 companies operating in the logistics sector, differing in size and structure, and their current agility level is evaluated. The weights for business processes and agility component are also defined sector based via Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) during the calculation of the final agility score. Due to the detailed structure of the tool, the results gave opportunity for a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the business processes. Hence, custom recommendations could be made in order to improve the agility level of the company. Findings – It is seen that there are common elements like technology and innovation, that are highly effective on agility for every company studied, as well as there are prior elements to be focused that differ with the size and structure of the company. It is also concluded that companies need to be more agile as their operation size increases and they can meet these needs with managers who have an innovative perspective.

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A Perception Study of Seaborne Cargo Infrastructural Capacity in Lagos Port Complex

Author(s): Samuel A. Ogunlade,Mobolaji S. Stephens,Wilfred Isioma Ukpere / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

The study aims to analyse the seaborne cargo infrastructural capacity in Lagos Port Complex. The research adopts expository research design, with Lagos Port Complex as the sample frame. 230 questionnaires was administered using purposive sampling technique. Mann Withney U-test was used for the analysis. The research reveals that Port infrastructural capacity based on infrastructural adequacy or inadequacy is of moderate effect in the stance of ‘adequacy of port storage facilities’, ‘port-oriented traffic’, ‘obsolete handling equipment’ and ‘level of workforce’ of r-value |-0.210|, |-0.207|, |-0.245|, |-0.212| respectively. Therefore, it can be said that the port infrastructural capacity of the Lagos Port Complex (LPC) is relatively poor considering eleven (11) independent variables, where only four (4) have moderate effect on infrastructural adequacy of the port and the remaining seven (7) were of no statistical significant effect on infrastructural capacity of the port.

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A Polar Silk Road: The Arctic in China’s Foreign and Economic Policies

Author(s): Damian Wnukowski / Language(s): English

The Arctic is playing an increasingly important role in Chinese foreign and economic policy. In January 2018, the Chinese government published a strategy for this region, recognising it as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. The Arctic is to be used primarily as a source of raw materials and an attractive transport route connecting Eastern Asia with Europe. China’s actions may ultimately challenge the interests of Poland’s allies, including the United States, which should be taken into account when considering cooperation with Chinese entities.

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A record of the transport of stone blocks on ostrakon DeB/F.608

Author(s): Mirosław Barwik / Language(s): English Issue: XXVIII/2019

Ostrakon DeB/F.608 was found in the area of the Temple of Tuthmosis III at Deir el-Bahari. There are good reasons, however, to link it to the building of the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut and more precisely to the transport of stone blocks by a crew of eight men. Five of them can be identified as foreigners, presumably Asiatic slaves brought to Egypt as a result of military campaign(s) in the early Eighteenth Dynasty.

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A simulation model of a monopoly passenger rail service with two-way traffic: testing the optimization algorithm

Author(s): Ondřej Krčál,Rostislav Staněk / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

We present an agent–based model of a long–distance passenger rail service. The model contains two terminal stations and a monopoly train operating company whose aim is to set the fare and departure times from both stations so that its profit is maximized. The paper introduces an algorithm that combines three different elimination strategies which are used for finding the optimum timetable. Starting from the maximum possible number of departures, the strategies might sequentially eliminate either one random pair of departures, each from a different terminal station, two pairs of departures, or a number of departures necessary to significantly reduce capital costs of the operating company. The strategies might be combined in different proportions.

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