Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0016.2479
M. Urbaniak, Dominik Zimon, Peter Madzík
The aim of the article is to present the expectations of industrial enterprises towards suppliers related to quality, envi-ronment, occupational health and safety management systems (QEOH &SMS). The article presents the results of empiri-cal research conducted in 151 companies operating on the Polish B2B market. The study was commissioned to a spe-cialised research agency that conducted a targeted selection of companies registered in the Bisnode database, which is a business directory search platform. The expectations of production companies towards their suppliers regarding the implementation of QEOH&SMS were assigned a rank on a scale from one (the least important criterion) to five (the most significant). The methodological apparatus in this study was set so that it was possible to fulfil the research goal based on empirical data. A questionnaire was used to verify the characteristics of the operational process after the implementation of particular managerial systems. This article examines the relationship between the requirements for suppliers and the implementation of management systems by manufacturing companies. The results of the conducted research indicate that expectations of industrial enterprises towards suppliers related to QEOH&SMS are strongly focused on their development. Research shows that companies that adhere to the requirements of standardised man-agement systems have a greater requirement for suppliers than companies that do not implement QEOH & SM require-ments. In particular, the implementation of quality and environmental management systems by the surveyed organisa-tions translates into increased requirements for suppliers. The article contributes to the existing scientific literature by analysing the impact of the implementation of individual management systems on the expectations towards suppliers. This study shows which of the 18 examined aspects are particularly important for manufacturing companies. Addition-ally, the expectations towards suppliers were classified into four groups (Corrective, Preventive, Improvement, Innova-tion).
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Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0016.2478
Hui Li
With the increasing volume of shipping containers, container multimodal transport and port scheduling have attracted much attention. The allocation and dispatching of handling equipment to minimize completion time and energy consumption have always been a focus of research. This paper considers a scheduling problem at an auto-mated landmaritime multimodal container terminal with multi-size containers, in which operating facilities and equipment such as quay cranes, vehicles, yard cranes, and external container trucks are involved. Moreover, the diversity of container sizes and the location of handshake areas in yards are concerned. A mixed integer program-ming model is established to schedule all operating facilities and equipment. To solve the mathematical model is a NP-hard problem, which is difficult to be solved by conventional methods. Then we propose a heuristic algorithm which merges multiple targets into one and designs an improved genetic algorithm based on the heuristic combi-nation strategy in which 20-ft containers are paired-up to the same yard before allocation. After that, some exper-iments are designed to prove the effectiveness of the model and the algorithm. The effect of configurations on efficiency and energy consumption under different conditions is discussed, and the influences of different parame-ters and the proportion of 20-ft containers are also compared. Furthermore, the influence of locations of hand-shake area with different yard quantities are compared. To conclude, there is an optimal number of equipment to be allocated. If few equipment is used, the operation time will be prolonged; if too many, the energy consumption will be increased. When the yard operation is the bottleneck, the handover location should be in the centre, other-wise other locations might be feasible. When the proportion of 20-ft containers that can be combined is large, the method proposed in this paper has advantages over traditional methods. The proposed algorithm has made a breakthrough in improving efficiency and reducing energy consumption.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0016.2477
Mina Sahraei, M. Mesbah, M. Habibian, Tara Saeidi, Amirali Soltanpour
Although customer satisfaction surveys are widely utilized by transit agencies, there are limited analyses in the literature on the perception of passengers as a result of service improvements. A before-after study can help to evaluate the effect of changes from customers points of view and thus guarantee a continuous improvement in the service. In this paper, customer satisfaction was directly observed through a Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS) before and after certain changes. Furthermore, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is utilized to evaluate pas-sengers perception of the service attribute importance. Finally, an Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) is adapted to analyze the changes in satisfaction and importance from the passengers perspective on each service attribute. In both before and after cases, a consistent SEM structure is used. The follow-up IPA provides transit agencies with priorities to improve service attributes and helps managers to devote their resources to key attrib-utes that matter to the riders. Metro line 3 in Tehran was selected as the case study which is 33.7 km long with 25 stations. Two surveys were performed one before (with the sample size of 300), and one after (with the sample size of 384) a set of changes the most important of which was a headway reduction. The SEM was developed with five latent variables of main service, comfort, information, protection, and physical appearance. This structure was assessed on both the before and after data collections and showed to be valid. Security at the station and security on board were the most important service attributes in both waves according to their factor loadings, while ethics and behavioral messages had the smallest factor loading and the least importance. Comparing the attributes in both surveys suggested that reducing the headway was effective, although it did not seem to be sufficient for en-hancing the overall customer satisfaction and improvements need to be continued.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0016.2476
S. Haładyn, J. Magott, F. Restel, Łukasz Wolniewicz
In training process of rail traffic manager (controller) using virtual reality technology, selection of activities among those assigned to a workplace and scenarios that should be taken in training is an important issue. The selection method that is based on performance variability of her/his activities has been proposed in the paper. This variability has been characterized by timing and precision. The traditional reliability and safety analysis methods are not sufficient when building the training program for traffic managers. In the paper the train controller work has been modelled using Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) that is system oriented approach. Scales of values of timing and precision that are train transport driven have been presented. They are different when comparing with typical timing and precision scales given in FRAM literature. In the paper the estimation of prob-abilities of occurring of values of timing and precision scales for these activities has been calculated as the mean from the values obtained by questionnaire done in traffic manager community or using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. In FRAM with AHP approaches presented in literature, AHP pairwise comparison is executed using natural numbers and their reciprocals what is typical in AHP method. In our paper the AHP is used for estimating the probabilities, so in pairwise comparing the rational numbers are applied, because natural numbers and their reciprocals would limit the set of values of probabilities. The activities and scenarios that the training should be concentrated on are selected from those with the greatest variability.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0016.2480
M. Rydlewski, A. Tubis, Georgios Skroumpelos
Travel comfort depends on many criteria, including, to a large extent, the passenger's sense of security while waiting for the vehicle and while driving. For this reason, tram stops play an essential role in the overall assess-ment of the functioning of the tram system in cities. The presented results of the literature review indicate that few publications related to safety in the tram transport system concern aspects of the infrastructure of stops. The arti-cles we distinguished in this area also prove the lack of publications in which the researchers focus on the criteria for assessing the safety of tram stops. The paper aims to present the results of research conducted among experts, which concerned identifying criterions influencing the safety of tram stops and the selection of criteria for their evaluation. In addition, the obtained results are the basis for further analysis of safety at tram stops. The research was conducted among experts representing almost all cities in Poland with a tram service system for residents. The obtained results showed that the critical elements from the safety point of view are those related to technical aspects, i.e., length, width, and height of platforms, which are adapted to both the rolling stock and the size of passenger flows. The second significant group of criteria determining the safety of stops is equipping them with elements supporting their use by people with disabilities, i.e., placing warning fields at the edges of the platform, designating a waiting area for people with reduced mobility, or the use of guiding lanes. It is also crucial to main-tain adequate separation of traffic between its various participants so that other people do not use the waiting and passenger exchange zone. The results obtained as part of the analysis will form the basis for the development of a detailed method of assessing tram stops in Poland in terms of their safety.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0016.2028
M. Mrozik, J. Kozuba, K. Krasuski, J. Ćwiklak, M. Bakuła, A. Ciećko, G. Grunwald, D. Wierzbicki
The article presents a modified scheme of determining the accuracy parameter of SBAS (Satellite Based Augmentation System) positioning with use of two supporting systems: EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) and SDCM (System of Differential Correction and Monitoring). The proposed scheme is based on the weighted mean model, which combines single solutions of EGNOS and SDCM positions in order to calculate the accuracy of position-ing of the aerial vehicle. The applied algorithm has been tested in a flight experiment conducted in 2020 in north-eastern Poland. The phase of approach to landing of a Diamond DA 20-C1 aircraft at the EPOD airport (European Poland Olsztyn Dajtki) was subjected to numerical analysis. The Septentrio AsterRx2i geodesic receiver was installed on board of the aircraft to collect and record GPS (Global Positioning System) observations to calculate the naviga-tion position of the aircraft. In addition, the EGNOS and SDCM corrections in the “*.ems” format were downloaded from the real time server data. The computations were realized in RTKPOST library of the RTKLIB v.2.4.3 software and also in Scilab application. Based on the conducted research, it was found that the accuracy of aircraft positioning from the EGNOS+SDCM solution ranged from -1.63 m to +3.35 m for the ellipsoidal coordinates BLh. Additionally, the accuracy of determination of the ellipsoidal height h was 1÷28% higher in the weighted mean model than in the arith-metic mean model. On the other hand, the accuracy of determination of the ellipsoidal height h was 1÷28% higher in the weighted mean model than for the single EGNOS solution. Additionally, the weighted mean model reduced the resultant error of the position RMS-3D by 1÷13% in comparison to the arithmetic mean model. The mathematical model used in this study proved to be effective in the analysis of the accuracy of SBAS positioning in aerial navigation
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Pub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0016.1047
A. Ratkiewicz, Jakub Walczak
The paper presents an approach for integrating conflicted cells in a chain-like structure based on a measurement of the level of integration of this structure. The authors’ prior experience suggests an assumption that conflicts always arise when cells are connected by a flow of materials, information, and money, although at different intensity levels. Usually, the intensity levels of said conflicts depend on the cooperation culture within a supply chain. This is a highly multidi-mensional problem, reflected by the literature referred to in this paper and related to this subject matter. The proposed approach treats technological processes between conflicted cells as an area of potential integration of these cells. Then, the integration becomes a problem of selecting the appropriate variant of realizing a technological process conducted in an area common for potentially conflicted cells of a company. The same approach may be used for cells belonging to separate production and distribution companies operating within a mutual supply chain. The paper proposes a method for measuring the integration level of neighboring cells, as a difficult-to-measure feature, by deter-mining an integration loss index. Also, the paper presents a multi-criteria method based on the fuzzy set theory for selecting a preferred variant of a technological process. A presented example uses this method in a supply chain to maximize the integration level between Shipping and Recipient cells/links. It has been assumed that the preferred realization variant of the flow process will be based on the following criteria: 1) shipping cost; 2) shipping quality; 3) shipping time. Also, an algorithm is shown for applying the presented methodology, which is helpful for managers interested in increasing the integration level of a supply chain. The methodology allows for increasing the integrity of conflicted cells both in newly designed supply chains as well as in existing ones when remodeled or reorganized. Moreover, the paper indicates some problems associated with the efficient implementation of the proposed method.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0016.1049
O. Stopka, P. Droździel, V. Ľupták
Suggesting the proper location for logistics facility can be considered as a decision making problem, wherein the final solution/decision is affected by multiple external or even internal circumstances. In order to address the decision making issues, various multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques may be implemented; and hence, they can be applied even when making a decision about an adequate logistics service center (LSC) placement in an examined territory (i.e., national logistics network of the selected territory), which is an aim of this manuscript. Following the statements above, as for the individual instruments of MCDM to be implemented in terms of the crucial objective of this research, the definite decision making process will be carried out by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) followed by the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), on the basis of criteria weights defined by the Saaty pairwise comparison method. The methods used appear to be ideal instruments towards decision making on the most suitable location which is represented by the region in our case. Subsequently, these will be ordered from the most preferred to least one by using a preference ranking. As a result of the application of AHP and TOPSIS approaches, based on the conducted calculations in regard to decision making on identifying the proper LSC location out of eight selected regions, one specific region will be defined as the most suitable (so-called compromise) scenario. Individual tools allow for reducing the number of assigned criteria that are taken into account in searching process for individual solutions. In order to objectify the entire decision making procedure, ten topic-involved experts having practical experience with a subject of logistics object allocation will be asked to participate in the process. Preferences differ from one decision maker (expert) to another; hence, the outcome depends on who is making decisions and what their goals and preferences are.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0016.1229
Jiandong Qiu, Yan Zhang, Minan Tang, Panpan Ma, Jiajia Ran
Aiming at the problem that automated guided vehicle (AGV) is difficult to locate accurately due to the influence of environment and time drift when it works in the indoor intelligent storage system. In this paper, an extended kalman filtering (EKF) framework is designed. In order to make full use of the original ranging values of ultra wideband (UWB) and inertial measurement unit (IMU), the framework realizes the fusion positioning between UWB module and IMU module in a tight coupling manner, so as to ensure that the system can still work when the available base station signal is inaccurate. Firstly, for the problem that the traditional UWB positioning method is easily affected by the non-line of sight (NLOS) error indoors, the calculated positioning coordinate value is unstable. With the help of different NLOS probability distribution curves of different obstacles, the weighted least square method is applied to the UWB positioning method to determine the positioning coordinate value of UWB, which improves the sudden change of AGV positioning coordinate in the static environment. Then the data fusion algorithm is optimized, and the error value of IMU and UWB coordinate is taken as the observation value of EKF, which reduces the influence of cumulative error on IMU positioning results, provides the global optimal estimation of the system optimal state, and improves the fusion positioning accuracy. Finally, the measured data of UWB and IMU systems in indoor complex environment are simulated in MATLAB. The experimental results show that when NLOS signal seriously affects the positioning effect, the UWB and IMU combined positioning system can provide more reliable positioning results than the single IMU positioning system. It improves the positioning accuracy of AGV and provides a new idea for indoor positioning mode.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0016.1048
A. Borucka, Rafał Parczewski, E. Kozłowski, A. Świderski
The Covid-19 pandemic unexpectedly shook the entire global economy, causing it to destabilize over a long period of time. One of the sectors that was particularly hit hard was air traffic, and the changes that have taken place in it have been unmatched by any other crisis in history. The purpose of this article was to identify the time series describing the number of airline flights in Poland in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The article first presents selected statistics and indicators showing the situation of the global and domestic aviation market during the pandemic. Then, based on the data on the number of flights in Poland, the identification of the time series describing the number of flights by airlines was made. The discrete wavelet transformation (DWT) was used to determine the trend, while for periodicity verification, first statistical tests (Kruskal-Wallis test and Friedman test) and then spectral analysis were used. The confirmation of the existence of weekly seasonality allowed for the identification of the studied series as the sum of the previously determined trend and the seasonal component, as the mean value from the observations on a given day of the week. The proposed model was compared with the 7-order moving average model, as one of the most popular in the literature. As the obtained results showed, the model developed by the authors was better at identifying the studied series than the moving average. The errors were significantly lower, which made the presented solution more effective. This confirmed the validity of using wavelet analysis in the case of irregular behaviour of time series, and also showed that both spectral analysis and statistical tests (Kruskal-Walis and Fridman) proved successful in identifying the sea-sonal factor in the time series. The method used allowed for a satisfactory identification of the model for empirical data, however, it should be emphasized that the aviation services market is influenced by many variables and the fore-casts and scenarios created should be updated and modified on an ongoing basis.
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