1. Introduction
The Thai Government places increasing emphasis on business activities amongst Greater Mekong sub-region countries (GMS, Cambodia, People’s Republic of China (PRC), Lao People’s Demo- cratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar, Kingdom of Thailand and Socialist Republic of Vietnam). Working within the restrictions of seasonal conditions, multimodal transportation can play a key role in increasingly intense trade competition. The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has created a plan that defines Thailand’s Vision as World Class Logistics (Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board, 2007) so they can support business and trade amongst GMS countries.
Ko (2009) presents multimodal transportation as the carriage of goods by two or more modes of transport, under one contract, one document and one responsible party for the entire carriage, who might subcontract the performance of some, or all modes, of the carriage to other carriers. According to the previous research on selecting a multimodal transportation route such as Min (1991), Bookbinder et al. (1998), Banomyong and Beresford (2001) and Chang (2008) have placed emphasis on the selection of multimodal transportation routes for minimum cost or mini- mum time by using only quantitative criteria: without qualitative criteria; however, Banomyong and Beresford (2001) have acknowl- edged some risks of route but not combined this in the model.
1. IntroductionThe Thai Government places increasing emphasis on business activities amongst Greater Mekong sub-region countries (GMS, Cambodia, People’s Republic of China (PRC), Lao People’s Demo- cratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar, Kingdom of Thailand and Socialist Republic of Vietnam). Working within the restrictions of seasonal conditions, multimodal transportation can play a key role in increasingly intense trade competition. The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has created a plan that defines Thailand’s Vision as World Class Logistics (Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board, 2007) so they can support business and trade amongst GMS countries.Ko (2009) presents multimodal transportation as the carriage of goods by two or more modes of transport, under one contract, one document and one responsible party for the entire carriage, who might subcontract the performance of some, or all modes, of the carriage to other carriers. According to the previous research on selecting a multimodal transportation route such as Min (1991), Bookbinder et al. (1998), Banomyong and Beresford (2001) and Chang (2008) have placed emphasis on the selection of multimodal transportation routes for minimum cost or mini- mum time by using only quantitative criteria: without qualitative criteria; however, Banomyong and Beresford (2001) have acknowl- edged some risks of route but not combined this in the model.
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