Container movement involves several stakeholders where each group is focused on achieving its own objectives. By actively considering the perspective of different maritime stakeholders, this paper identifies a set of implementation strategies and prioritizes them to successfully implement an ‘Inland-Depots-for-Empty-Containers’ (IDEC) system in a region. It builds on the authors’ earlier work t...

Ontologies have been largely exploited in many domains and studies. In this paper, we present a new application of a domain ontology for generating personalized user interfaces for transportation interactive systems. The concepts, relationships and axioms of transportation ontology are exploited during the semi-automatic generation of personalized user interfaces. Personalization deals with the...

Abstract Container on Barge (COB) facilitates intermodal transportation by transporting shipping containers barge tows. COB has seen rapid expansion globally over the past 20 years, providing a cost-efficient, environmentally friendly, and congestion-reducing mode of container transportation. European countries have led in both study application two decades. However, increasing interest is obse...

Title of Dissertation: A STOWAGE PLANNING MODEL FOR MULTIPORT CONTAINER TRANSPORTATION Evangelos I. Kaisar Doctor of Philoshophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ali Haghani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The ship turnaround time at container terminals is an important measure of a port’s efficiency and attractiveness. The speed and quality of load planning affect the...

Transportation networks play a crucial role in human mobility, the exchange of goods and the spread of invasive species. With 90 per cent of world trade carried by sea, the global network of merchant ships provides one of the most important modes of transportation. Here, we use information about the itineraries of 16 363 cargo ships during the year 2007 to construct a network of links between p...