Reverse Logistics in Food Industries: A Case Study in Malaysia

This paper is demonstrated the reverse logistics in the food and beverage industries in Malaysia. Reverse logistics defined as the return, exchange, refurbishment, remarketing and disposition of products. The customer returns the products because of several reasons such as end of life, expired, product damage, products recall, poor quality and non halal products. The successful implementing reverse logistics industries can be a benchmark to the other food and beverage industries. This study is based on quantitative data collected by distributing the questionnaire to hypermarkets and one beverage company as a benchmark. The descriptive analysis shows that the significant factors those make reverse logistics success are based on the framework dimensions on: Why- Returning (the return reasons by the end user or customer), Why- Receiving (driving forces for implementing reverse logistics activities), What (the type of products and the products characteristics), How (the recovery processes and recovery option), and Who (the actors involved and their roles). The aims of this study thereby is to investigate the challenges that faced with application of reverse logistics at the organization are influenced by the internal and external barriers. The contribution of the study is to highlight the present scenario of reverse logistics practices to academicians and industries. Keywords: Reverse Logistics, Food and Beverage Industries, Challenges, Returnin

Understanding the neighbourhood choice decisions of movers: an analysis of focus group discussions

Using a qualitative methods approach, this study explores the key factors that influence household neighbourhood choice. Three newly developed residential neighbourhoods have been studied to examine resident decision making around their neighbourhood preferences. Four focus group (n = 4) discussions with 29 individuals who were recent movers to the study areas were conducted to examine the reasons behind neighbourhood choice and the needs of the household. The results revealed that household neighbourhood choice decisions were multi-faceted and complex. The key findings can be classified into six categories: safety, residential environment, neighbourhood facilities, accessibility, economic and demographic factors. Residents emphasised that the combination of land-use and transportation planning may be one important part of multi-layered solutions to improve quality of life in residential neighbourhoods

Land use revitalization as a consequence of bus rapid transit in Lahore based on context characteristics

Bus Rapid Transit system, the first ever experience in Pakistan, had been developed in the city of Lahore in 2013 resulting into various development growth change aspects like land use, land value, building construction mechanism and economic development. Because of it being not incorporated in the Lahore Master Plan 2004 - 2025, applicable at the time of implementation , no channelized development or restriction on the use of land could have been ensured. Where development along the corridor has brought many gains, it has also had adverse impact over the planned development of city. The needed amendment of Master Plan of city requires some grounds and solid justifications to re - project urban development along this corridor to ensure haphazard development to channelized one. The research paper is the study of BRT construction impacts on land use along the corridor. The pa per analyses the existing land uses along BRT corridor and studies the impacts of property regeneration as a consequence of revitalization along the corridor. The study identifies six revitalization trends in land pa rcels along the BRT corridor and suggest s policy measures that facilitate land use change potential along the corridor in planned manner

The Relationship between Urban Structure and Travel Behaviour: Challenges and Practices

Since urban structure indicators influence travel behaviour, they have been widely studied. The goal of these studies was identifying effective factors to have sustainable transport patterns. However, investigating these factors has been problematic and the results are not reliable enough to be used universally. There are two main reasons for this: firstly, because socio-economic indicators impact neighbourhoods with comparable design differently; and secondly, factors such as income, and age, as well as self-selection factors are not easy to be evaluated. This paper addresses challenges and practices in this area to propose new objectives for further studies that cover previous shortcomings

Non-motorised level of service: addressing challenges in pedestrian and bicycle level of service

Motorised vehicle conditions have been evaluated by many researchers. In contrast, there are very limited studies on vulnerable and non-motorised users, such as cyclists and pedestrians, specifically children, the elderly and the disabled. Thus, this paper reviews prominent studies on street evaluations to identify effective indicators for non-motorised trips. The street condition for these trips is measured by the bicycle level of service (BLOS) and the pedestrian level of service (PLOS). In previous studies, different methods have been introduced for PLOS and BLOS. However, these methods have several major shortcomings. First, pedestrians and cyclists are assumed to be users who can share street facilities with motorised vehicles and thus are considered equivalent to cars. Second, the majority of these methods are complicated and time-consuming, and it is difficult to connect them to a design process. Furthermore, these methods support only a limited number of walking and cycling facilities; therefore, they may not be valid for a wide range of pedestrians and cyclists with a diverse variety of abilities and ages. This study discusses the challenges in the BLOS and PLOS research and attempts to introduce new objectives for further studies in this field to eliminate the aforementioned shortcomings

Regression Analysis of Land Use and Private Vehicle Usage in Urban Area

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Regression Analysis of Land Use and Private Vehicle Usage in Urban Area

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Land Use Revitalization as a Consequence of Bus Rapid Transit in Lahore based on context characteristics

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Land use revitalization as a consequence of bus rapid transit in lahore based on context characteristics

Bus Rapid Transit system, the first ever experience in Pakistan, had been developed in the city of Lahore in 2013 resulting into various development growth change aspects like land use, land value, building construction mechanism and economic development. Because of it being not incorporated in the Lahore Master Plan 2004 - 2025, applicable at the time of implementation , no channelized development or restriction on the use of land could have been ensured. Where development along the corridor has brought many gains, it has also had adverse impact over the planned development of city. The needed amendment of Master Plan of city requires some grounds and solid justifications to re - project urban development along this corridor to ensure haphazard development to channelized one. The research paper is the study of BRT construction impacts on land use along the corridor. The pa per analyses the existing land uses along BRT corridor and studies the impacts of property regeneration as a consequence of revitalization along the corridor. The study identifies six revitalization trends in land pa rcels along the BRT corridor and suggest s policy measures that facilitate land use change potential along the corridor in planned manner