| dc.description.abstract | Truck operations cost is the major cost element
in the total supply chain for a better service. In relation
to such situations, estimation of the truck operation
cost has become a main factor in making important
decisions. Considering the truck fleet and its operations
of a company, a method of estimating the truck operation
cost has been developed. The Mechanistic Probabilistic
Vehicle Operation Cost Model (PVOC) has been used to
estimate the truck operation cost of 6-wheel trucks and
10-wheel trucks using fuel cost, tire cost, maintenance and
repair cost, oil cost, capital depreciation cost, Insurance
cost, operator wages and labor cost. The PVOC calculates
the probabilistic estimate of truck operating costs,
including expected value and the associated uncertainty
of the estimate for a selected sample. Methods have been
developed for measuring the identified variables. Service
life of the vehicle has been found to be the leading variable
that makes greater variation in the truck operation cost as
per to the deterministic sensitivity analysis. As resulted
by the model, the truck operation cost of 10-wheeler
is 60.505-99.126 Rs per km while the 6-wheeler cost is
26.876-59.598 Rs per km. | en_US |
