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Table 5 The complexity of logics of performance in freight transport services

From: Evaluating the performance of freight transport: a service approach

Freight transport service trajectory

Association with modes of production

Logics of performance

Possibility of quantitative (productivity) indicators

M

Industrial Professional

Optimization of physical transport operations (FTL)

yes

M + I

Flexible sometimes Industrial

Optimization of consolidation of transport operations (LTL)

partial indicators

Management of information flows

no

Optimization of flexibility of logistics

no

M + I + C

Flexible

Improvement of management and information systems, development of new management and information systems

no

M + R

Professional Flexible (few cases)

Improvement of coordination processes, quality of interactions, establishment of trust, stabilization of relations (Interface role of transport services)

no