South Africa’s
transportation and logistics industry,
in focus.

Supply Chain Management Challenges

20.3% of this theme group

Researchers highlight difficulties in optimizing and managing supply chain risk and performance.

Supply chain (148) · Supply chain optimization (71) · Supply chain management (61) · Supply chain risk management (25)

Supply chain optimization

Supply Chain Optimization, Management and Integration: Emerging Applications

Fleet Management in Aeronautics

18.7% of this theme group

Studies point to operational and research hurdles in managing aircraft fleets efficiently.

Fleet management (118) · Aeronautics (19) · Operations management (23) · Operations research (20)

Making Fleet Management Easier.

Guide for Fleet Management

Truck Fleet Operations Issues

17.8% of this theme group

Papers discuss obstacles in transport engineering and day‑to‑day truck fleet management.

Fleet management (119) · Transport engineering (68) · Truck (29) · Operations management (23)

EVALUATION OF THE POSSIBILITY OF IMPROVING THE OPERATION OF A TRANSPORT COMPANY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE VEHICLE FLEET MANAGEMENT

Road Transport Management System : fleet management

Public Transport Routing Problems

16.0% of this theme group

Works focus on GPS‑based routing and tracking challenges for buses and other public vehicles.

Global Positioning System (22) · Public transport (18) · Vehicle routing problem (14) · Routing (13)

A Vehicle Tracking Device with Built-in Safety Features for Public Transportation Systems

Positioning needs for public transport

Truck Fuel Efficiency Concerns

13.4% of this theme group

Research flags emissions, fuel consumption, and alternative fuel integration difficulties for trucks.

Truck (22) · Fuel efficiency (13) · Liquefied natural gas (6) · Diesel fuel (5)

Improvement of environmental compliance of urban transport system through enlarging fleet of gas-engine municipal machinery

Toward Sustainable Trucking: Reducing Emissions and Fuel Consumption

Electrification of Commercial Fleets

7.3% of this theme group

Studies identify barriers to adopting electric vehicles and managing charging within fleets.

Electric vehicle (22) · Electrification (15) · Electricity (7) · Fleet management (35)

Potential Users of Electric Mobility in Commercial Transport – Identification and Recommendations

Classification of Electric Vehicle Fleets Considering the Complexity of Fleet Charging Schedules

Biomass Feedstock Supply Issues

6.5% of this theme group

Papers examine logistical and supply‑chain problems in sourcing raw material for biofuels.

Biomass (26) · Biofuel (24) · Raw material (17) · Supply chain (38)

Integrated biomass supply and logistics: a modeling environment for designing feedstock supply systems for biofuel production.

Modeling of biomass-to-energy supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research directions

Energy‑Saving Fleet Management Risks

42.7% of this theme group

Authors caution that fleet and infrastructure constraints may limit fuel‑efficiency gains.

Fleet management (47) · Fuel efficiency (8) · Transport engineering (15) · Operations management (5)

Analysis of Fleet Management and Infrastructure Constraints in On-Demand Urban Air Mobility Operations

How to Use Advanced Fleet Management System to Promote Energy Saving in Transportation: A Survey of Drivers’ Awareness of Fuel-Saving Factor

Electrified Public and Freight Transport

31.1% of this theme group

Research warns of performance and charging strategy challenges for electric public and freight fleets.

Public transport (11) · Truck (15) · Electrification (7) · Transport engineering (14)

Performance analysis and fleet requirements of automated demand-responsive transport systems as an urban public transport service

Different Charging Strategies for Electric Vehicle Fleets in Urban Freight Transport

Supply Chain Optimization Limits

14.6% of this theme group

Works advise careful use of advanced analytics to avoid over‑optimizing supply chains.

Supply chain (23) · Supply chain optimization (9) · Supply chain management (6) · Supply chain risk management (3)

Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Optimization

Supply Chain Optimization: Machine Learning Applications in Inventory Management for E-Commerce

Biofuel Production Trade‑offs

11.6% of this theme group

Studies highlight cost and scale uncertainties when integrating biomass into fuel supply chains.

Biofuel (11) · Biomass (7) · Production (9) · Raw material (5)

Cost optimization of biofuel production – The impact of scale, integration, transport and supply chain configurations

Resource efficiency or economy of scale: Biorefinery supply chain configurations for co-gasification of black liquor and pyrolysis liquids

Advanced Supply Chain Optimization

24.5% of this theme group

Opportunities focus on improving supply chain performance and risk management through new methods.

Supply chain (838) · Supply chain management (220) · Supply chain optimization (309) · Supply chain risk management (68)

Optimization of the supply chain to improve the on-time performance

Supply Chain Optimization and Logistics

Vehicle Routing and Fleet Sizing

17.6% of this theme group

Research explores robust routing and sizing techniques for trucks and shared mobility services.

Vehicle routing problem (156) · Routing (84) · Truck (129) · Service (145)

Distributionally Robust Optimization Approaches for a Stochastic Mobile Facility Fleet Sizing, Routing, and Scheduling Problem

Optimizing Vehicle Distributions and Fleet Sizes for Shared Mobility-on-Demand

Predictive Maintenance for Fleets

17.2% of this theme group

Papers propose data‑driven maintenance strategies to increase vehicle reliability and reduce downtime.

Fleet management (466) · Predictive maintenance (46) · Transport engineering (116) · Preventive maintenance (35)

A Simulation and Optimization Methodology for Reliability of Vehicle Fleets

DEVELOPMENT OF OPTIMIZED MAINTENANCE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE FLEET

Aviation Fleet Assignment Innovations

13.8% of this theme group

Works present integrated approaches to aircraft scheduling, routing, and fleet assignment.

Operations research (192) · Fleet management (309) · Scheduling (86) · Aviation (36)

An Integrated Approach for Airline Flight Selection and Timing, Fleet Assignment, and Aircraft Routing

A new approach to fleet assignment and aircraft routing problems

Smart Vehicle Tracking Systems

10.1% of this theme group

Research highlights IoT‑enabled GPS tracking for real‑time transportation management.

Global Positioning System (230) · Vehicle tracking system (70) · Tracking system (46) · Automatic vehicle location (49)

Transportation Management System

Smart Transportation Tracking and Management System using IOT

Electric Fleet Charging Optimization

9.4% of this theme group

Studies develop frameworks for managing battery health, tariffs, and charging infrastructure for EV fleets.

Electric vehicle (110) · Electrification (63) · Battery (40) · Fleet management (161)

Electric bus fleet charging management: A robust optimisation framework addressing battery ageing, time-of-use tariffs, and energy consumpti

Designing Charging Infrastructure for a Fleet of Electric Vehicles Operating in Large Urban Areas

Sustainable Biomass Supply Chains

7.5% of this theme group

Papers investigate multi‑objective designs for eco‑friendly biomass logistics and biofuel production.

Biomass (94) · Biofuel (92) · Supply chain (229) · Supply chain optimization (108)

Multi-Objective Optimization to Support the Design of a Sustainable Supply Chain for the Generation of Biofuels from Forest Waste

Economic, environmental and social optimization of forest-based biomass supply chains for bioenergy and biofuels

Johannesburg

32.9% across the displayed hubs

3 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding

Cape Town

27.7% across the displayed hubs

1 companies hiring · $28.0M disclosed funding

Durban

15.0% across the displayed hubs

1 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding

Pretoria

6.1% across the displayed hubs

0 companies hiring · $161.5M disclosed funding

Kempton Park

5.6% across the displayed hubs

0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding

Germiston

4.2% across the displayed hubs

1 companies hiring · $181.0M disclosed funding

Randburg

4.2% across the displayed hubs

0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding

Gauteng

4.2% across the displayed hubs

0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding