OPTIMAL PLANNING OF MULTIMODAL FREIGHT TRANSPORT NETWORK

Planning Multimodal Freight Transport Operations: a Literature Review

Purpose: Multimodal freight transport developed in the transportation sector as an alternative to unimodal transport faced with the challenges brought by the growing global demand for transporting goods. Multimodal transport is the transportation of goods using at least two modes of transport, usually door-to-door. The common transport modes include railways, maritime routes, and the roads. Whe...

Designing Multimodal Freight Transport Networks: A Heuristic Approach and Applications

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...

Optimal planning of order–based operations for intermodal freight transportation

In this paper, a planning problem is analysed for a consolidation transportation system in order to serve different transportation requests (i.e., orders) with different origins and destinations and different characteristics. The considered transportation system is a railway network provided with innovative terminals (where handling operations are realized very much faster than in traditional t...

Sensor Network Design for Multimodal Freight Transportation Systems