Toolkit for the Transportation and Logistics Infrastructure

Abstract

The article describes logistics technology perspectives, including reduced transport costs, improved quality of services provided to senders and recipients of goods, and accelerated capital turnover. The cost calculation method has been developed for "E", "F", "D" and "C" delivery terms. The export cargo delivery cost to time ratios have been developed based on the Incoterms rules. The article suggests creating a mixed transport and logistics union and presents a macro-level scheme of the innovative infrastructure for this mixed transport and logistics union. The implementation of the strategy of minimizing the total logistics costs is complicated by the weak formalizability of the parameters of the quality of logistics services and the subjective assessment of the quality of service by consumers. The desire to take into account most of the key factors in the logistics strategy obviously leads to the need to apply the methodology of multi-criteria optimization. There are a number of methodologies and models that offer multimodal transport timing, for example, "network models", "additive and multiplicative models", but they all consider time at the level of the domestic market and, most often at the level of one organization, all this is micrologistics. The authors are interested in an innovative method for calculating the time that can be applied for export shipments in combination with the terms of Incoterms specified in contracts.