Rail freight transportation concerns of developing economies: A Namibian perspective

Improving Resilience of rail-based intermodal Freight Transportation Systems

Title of Document: IMPROVING RESILIENCE OF RAIL-BASED INTERMODAL FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS Xiaodong Zhang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor Elise Miller-Hooks, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering With the increasing natural and human-made disasters, the risk of an event with potential to cause major disruption to our transportation systems and their components ...

External Costs of Truck and Rail Freight Transportation

Scheduled Service Network Design for Freight Rail Transportation

The paper addresses the scheduled service network design problem for freight rail transportation. The proposed model integrates service selection and scheduling, car classification and blocking, train make up, and routing of time-dependent customer shipments, based on a cyclic three-layer space-time network representation of the associated operations and decisions, their relations and time dime...

Cloud computing concerns in developing economies

Cloud computing promises to bring substantial benefits to how organizations conduct their businesses and the way their services reach out to potential consumers. Cloud computing is a welcome initiative for small businesses that cannot afford to invest in ICT infrastructure but need to benefit from the rewards of conducting business online. In developing economies, there are challenges that face...

Evaluation of Iran Rail Freight Transportation Efficiency in Comparison between the World Countries and the Middle East and Central Asia

The study of various countries rail transportation indicators is an appropriate criterion for evaluating the existing performance of Iranian railways. The experiences of other countries can be used to improve the efficiency of Iran’s rail transportation. At the beginning of the study, in order to compare the Iranian railway performance with railways of other countries, various efficiency indica...