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The development and application of a freight transport flow model for South Africa
Thesis (DPhil (Logistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/1175 The development and application of a freight transport flow model for South Africa Havenga, Jan H. Pienaar, W. J. University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Logistics. Macro-logistics measurement Transnet Transport flow model Commodity flow model Logistics cost model Economic systems Verburgh's 1968 contribution Studies by Hamilton Freight Transport Data Bank Business logistics Transportation -- South Africa Dissertations -- Logistics Theses -- Logistics Freight and freightage -- South Africa Thesis (DPhil (Logistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. South Africa currently experiences the double jeopardy problem of catching up to global economic competitiveness whilst at the same time feeling the pressures of sustainability management spearheaded by a global agenda. Global sustainability is defined as growth that is shared without depleting natural resources or damaging the environment. Academic disciplines are challenged to make a contribution and economics as such should contribute by providing the lead and lag indicators for the planning and measurement of scarce resources usuage. This integrative view includes economic sub-disciplines, such as logistics. This integrative view is an acknowledged part of the economics discipline, except that the macro-economic context of some sub-disciplines, such as logistics, often receives less attention during the course of academic activities. The distribution of resources and outputs in the economy is a logistics controlled cross-cutting factor, but suffers from a lack of macro-economic perspective, and lead and lag orientated measurement. This state of the affairs is a historic backlog of logistics and its specific position within economics. During the primary economic era the world began to configure networks and markets, which became more pronounced and settled with the dawn and settling of the industrial era. Logistics then was a “given” and did not receive much thought even as industrial, market economies developed. Transport was regarded as an administered cost, i.e. inefficiencies in logistics systems were evenly distributed between competitors, not giving any specific entity an advantage. With the advent of global competition and the diminishing returns on other cost saving measures, companies began to collaborate and integrate logistics functions within value chains, but the administered part of transport costs failed to receive the attention it required. In this way, global competitors did begin to experience disadvantages on a national level as whole economies suffered from inefficiencies in logistics and specifically transport systems. Masters 2008-03-27T10:29:47Z 2010-06-01T08:14:17Z 2008-03-27T10:29:47Z 2010-06-01T08:14:17Z 2007-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1175 en University of Stellenbosch 2011226 bytes application/pdf application/pdf Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| spellingShingle | Macro-logistics measurement Transnet Transport flow model Commodity flow model Logistics cost model Economic systems Verburgh's 1968 contribution Studies by Hamilton Freight Transport Data Bank Business logistics Transportation -- South Africa Dissertations -- Logistics Theses -- Logistics Freight and freightage -- South Africa Havenga, Jan H. The development and application of a freight transport flow model for South Africa |
| title | The development and application of a freight transport flow model for South Africa |
| title_full | The development and application of a freight transport flow model for South Africa |
| title_fullStr | The development and application of a freight transport flow model for South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The development and application of a freight transport flow model for South Africa |
| title_short | The development and application of a freight transport flow model for South Africa |
| title_sort | development and application of a freight transport flow model for south africa |
| topic | Macro-logistics measurement Transnet Transport flow model Commodity flow model Logistics cost model Economic systems Verburgh's 1968 contribution Studies by Hamilton Freight Transport Data Bank Business logistics Transportation -- South Africa Dissertations -- Logistics Theses -- Logistics Freight and freightage -- South Africa |
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