6.1.2.2 Short-haul transport problems.
Short-haul transport includes movements having their origin and destination in a relatively small-sized geographic area (e.g. a city or a county). Problems of this type involve manufacturing companies, to supply their customers starting from DCs, using a fleet of their own vehicles (see Figure 6.4); local fast couriers, which transport loads between origin-destination pairs situated in the same area, and national or international carriers, which need to collect locally outbound parcels before sending them to a remote terminal as a consolidated load, and to locally distribute loads coming from remote terminals (see Figure 6.5).