The research paper deals with the formation of new scientific solutions regarding the assessment of the impact of stimulating innovation activity on ensuring the strategic development of enterprises in the motor transport sector of transport industries in key countries of the post-Soviet economic space (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan). The study reveals the relationship between the strategic development of a motor transport enterprise and its innovative activity, where the latter is the tool for such development. An assessment of the development of the transport industry and its motor transport sector in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan indicates that there is a crisis both in the industry and in the sector, and that there is a need to improve the competitiveness of transport enterprises, especially given the growing influence of motor transport on national economies under research. It is proved that the effective functioning of road transport enterprises in domestic and foreign service markets is possible only by ensuring their own strategic development, which is based on increasing innovation activity, which requires the use of appropriate incentives. Significant prob-lems of stimulating innovative activity at Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, and Kazakhstan motor transport enterprises have been revealed, and ways of solving the identified problems have been de-veloped, taking into account the use of mathematical tools for evaluating the developed improvements.

Agriculture products are one of the main income sources of developing countries. This study analyzes the road transport system (network) to reveal the network’s structural properties and identifies hubs that consolidate agricultural products to export to China via the China-Laos railway. Analysis of 20 provinces in the Northeast of Thailand has found that the network has 340 districts connected by 1,015 transport routes. The network is sparse, in which all districts cannot be connected to each other. The network has low connectivity efficiency but has high intra-connectivity among districts in the same province. In addition, the network has a modularity structure that can develop the communities. Hubs consolidating agricultural products of the region are Na Khu, Kuchinaria, Mueng Chiyaphum, Nam Phong, Na Wa, Mueang Mukdahan, Prasat and Rasi Salai. The findings of the study draw implications for the government, sector and exporters to design and improve their operations and services.

Transportation is one of the most important functions of logistics management because of its impact on both the level of customer service provision and the organization’s cost structure. The study explores the transportation cost optimization strategies and how they affect the supply chain performance of Shea nuts in the Agro-processing industries in Ghana. The quantitative study design was adopted and utilized to solicit data. With a sample size of 204 respondents. Data was analyzed using multiple linear regression in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS v20). The results revealed interesting findings in the supply chain within the institution as it seeks to assert that transportation is seen to be effective and contribute highly to firms output when Agro companies use outsourcing and pooling as means of transport. From the results, the supply chain correlated positively and significantly with outsourcing and pooling as transport optimization practices in Agro firms supply chain. This paper adds to the existing literature on the supply chain systems of Agro processing firms but departs from previous studies which seek to concentrate not on the transport optimization of the Agro processing firms but rather on the challenges, production, and profit maximization of these firms. Our study is unique unlike any other research previously authored as it seeks to reveal the option of transport optimization that is cost effective and efficiently productive for Agro processing firms to adopt.