Corporate Strategies, Freight Transport and Regional Development

Freight transport development forecasts in enterprises management

In this study, an investigation of long-term forecasts relating to the development of the transport sector in Poland is performed, including the ones by 2030 and 2050. Selected transport development forecasts from the perspective of the membership of Poland in the European Union are presented and most of all, from the perspective of national studies. The basement for the review was the prognosi...

Regional Freight Transport Distribution Models

Today freight transport covers great importance in the field of the transportation system and in general in the economic system. It represents one of the most important elements in the national economy development process. In spite of the importance of freight transport, only in the last ten years the research devotes itself to this field. The most investigate topics are the national freight tr...

Freight Transport, Logistics and Sustainable Development

Locomotive and Wagon Scheduling in Freight Transport

We present a new model for a strategic locomotive scheduling problem arising at the Deutsche Bahn AG. The model is based on a multi-commodity min-cost flow formulation that is also used for public bus scheduling problems. However, several new aspects have to be additionally taken into account, such as cyclic departures of the trains, time windows on starting and arrival times, network-load depe...

Introduction: Dossier on Freight Transport and Logistics