Multimodal Statewide Freight Transportation Model

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...

A parameterised model of multimodal freight transportation for maritime services optimisation

Multimodal transport has been promoted by several transport commissions initiatives as an alternative to road transport. A key factor for improving its competitiveness is to provide private and public investors with means of evaluating and selecting the most profitable options. This paper presents a parameterisation schema of a freight transport model for the assessment of a multimodal transpor...

Designing Multimodal Freight Transport Networks: A Heuristic Approach and Applications

A mathematical model for hazmat and freight transportation in railway networks

In this paper, we develop a freight transportation model for railway network considering hazmat transportation issue. In the transportation system considered, different customers can request for carrying hazmat and non- hazmat boxes. It is assumed that the sequence of the trains in the network is known. The objective is assigning the non-hazmat boxes and hazmat boxes to wagons of the trains so ...

Performance Evaluation of the Provinces of Iran Reading To the Measures of Freight and Passenger Transportation

Freight and passenger transport are two main functions of the infrastructure and transportation networks in each country. It is required to efficiently utilize the transportation infrastructures to increase transportation-related performance measures. In this study, data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is used to evaluate performance of the Iranian provinces from the freight and passenger tran...