• DocumentCode
    2432196
  • Title

    Goods distribution centre services infrastructures in peninsular Malaysia

  • Author

    Arip, Mohd Sabri Mohd ; Mohid, Mohamed Noor Bin ; Tambi, Abdul Malek A ; Shukor, I.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Malaysian Inst. of Transp. (MITRANS), Univ. Teknol. MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    7-8 April 2012
  • Firstpage
    269
  • Lastpage
    272
  • Abstract
    The purpose of this paper is to study the services infrastructures element at goods distribution centre in peninsular Malaysia. Some explanations have been presented to understand these services infrastructures element for a goods distribution centre. Then, the current status of needs and demanding by freight forwarders has been studied. Therefore, the analysis for the services infrastructure toward goods distribution system performance has been undergone by multiple regression analysis. Finally the result of the analysis shows that there is a relationship between independent and dependent variables at goods distribution centre in peninsular Malaysia.
  • Keywords
    critical infrastructures; freight handling; goods distribution; regression analysis; service industries; Peninsular Malaysia; freight forwarders; goods distribution centre; multiple regression analysis; services infrastructures; Companies; Logistics; Planning; Road transportation; System performance; Warehousing; Service infrastructure; distribution centre; intermodal transport and custom operation; warehousing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Business Engineering and Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Kuala Lumpur
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0425-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226065
  • Filename
    6226065