The report offers an overview on relevant technologies and concepts that have the potential to support an eco-efficient transport system, and it provides an overview of important trends and challenges in the passenger and freight transport sector. As such the findings are used for the design of the scenarios conducted in phase 3.

This paper applies the concept of resilience to rail freight industry, taking a regional perspective and considering disturbances that have affected demand over six year period from 2015 2021. contrasts with many existing studies relating which look at managerial factors or only consider short term disruptions. To overcome issues data availability, four sample weeks were surveyed using online s...

ITE JOURNAL / DECEMBER 2004 INTRODUCTION The incorporation of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) into goods transport promises to increase productivity, security and efficiency. This feature reviews emerging examples of “passive” data collection efforts in several states. Work remains to transform these opportunities into needs identified by freight planners and researchers. Freight movem...

To ensure the preservation and quality of the goods, physical (i.e. radiation) or chemical pest control is needed. The dark side of such consents may bear health risks in international transport and production sharing. In fact, between 10% and 20% of all containers arriving European harbors were shown to contain volatile toxic substances above the exposure limit values. Possible exposure to the...

Railway freight center location problem is an important issue in railway freight transport programming. This paper focuses on the railway freight center location problem in uncertain environment. Seeing that the expected value model ignores the negative influence of disadvantageous scenarios, a robust optimization model was proposed. The robust optimization model takes expected cost and deviati...

Decision makers in urban freight transport (UFT) typically need to assess the impact new policy interventions might have on freight distribution. They need to assess the impacts of changes in freight distribution policies might have on a set of elements among which one can safely include: infrastructure needs and use, logistic performance, emissions and energy use. All these elements can be gro...