Abstract
This paper tries to examine truck transportation service in Tanzania, particularly, in National Transport Corporation’s subsidiary companies - Regional Transport Companies. It provides an analysis based on operations research approach on resource allocation, specifically, truck allocation, with an aim of trying to minimize running costs and hence improve profits. It is established that there had been higher running costs and hence decline of profits in some Regional Transport Companies due to misallocation of capacity. However, this problem had been compounded by some other factors as discussed in the paper. It is recommended that these Regional Transport Companies and other transport companies should follow some strategies to optimise capacity allocation so as to maximise profit.
Recommended Citation
Mgaya, R. (1994). Optimal capacity allocation truck industry in Tanzania:A case of national transport corporations(Ntc). Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET), 18(1), 52-65. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.52339/tjet.v18i1.162
Publisher Name
University of Dar es Salaam