Although there are many studies in the literature that explain modern costing
approaches including activity-based costing(ABC),the number of studies that present
real life application sis very few.This is especially true for logistics and transportation
applications.One of the main difficulties in land transportation companies is to
determine and cost of their operations and services.If used and
implemented properly,ABC can be very helpful for transportation companies to
determine cost of their operations with higher correctness.In this paper,an application
of ABC to a land transportation company that is located in Turkey is presented in detail.
In order to improve the effectiveness of the ABC an integrated approach that combines
ABC with business process modeling and analytical hierarchy approach is proposed.It is
figured out that the proposed approach is quite effective in costing services of the land
transportation company compared to the existing traditional costing system which is
in use.