The geographical location of Turkey in general, and Istanbul in particular, in a wider region encompassing the Black Sea, Balkans, Caucasus and Middle East provides an absolute advantage for the city to become an important international logistics node.
The results of the interviews and survey have shown that today, logistics activity in the Marmara region (and Istanbul in particular) is mainly the result of economic activities taking place in a national context, rather than the result of entrepôt or logistics node operations at a regional or global level.
As a matter of fact, from a spatial viewpoint, the current model has determined a trend toward a strong asymmetry in the spatial distribution of logistics nodes and platforms and a dramatic increase of long-haul flows on the East west axis.
As a new type of logistics network nodes, the logistics park is a significant part of the logistics system.
The box of pencil cases, school bags and other goodies known in military jargon as "consent-winning goods" was left undistributed and the bazaar that had been one of the main targets of the operation, because its role in the local opium industry made it a "key insurgent logistics and financing node", was deserted.
In a logistics problem, the nodes might represent tasks to be performed, while in an online recommendation engine, they might represent titles of movies.
Thus far, the strikes launched appear to be responses to specific Isis advances toward Irbil and attacks on Peshmerga, or an attempt to end the siege of Mt Sinjar, rather than an air campaign targeting key Isis personnel, command nodes, supplies, logistics or territory.
As Drewe and Janssen (1996) (among others) highlighted, ports became nodes in logistics chains.
The combination of high demand and scarce supply of infrastructure makes these hubs vulnerable nodes of the urban logistics network, creating bottlenecks that can trigger parking congestion and queueing, delays in the delivering operations and illegal parking.
The points to locate plants are then taken as destination nodes in the network when the logistics models are implemented.
This paper examines a three-echelon logistics network in which all supply and transshipment nodes are subject to disruption.
