complies with the regulations of the University and meets the accepted standards with respect to originality and quality. Cross-docking is a logistics management concept that has been gaining global recognition in less-than-truckload logistics industries and retail firms. In cross-docking terminals, shipments are unloaded from inbound trucks at strip doors, consolidated insider cross-docks acco...

The growth of intermodal freight transportation, driven by the changing requirements of supply chain, is challenged by two main factors: i) the need to reliably and flexibly respond to changing customer requirements with an effective coordination of equipment and freight flows through various modes, ii) the constraints on the infrastructure capacity, including policy and regulatory issues, as w...

In recent decades transport geography has been transformed by a topical emphasis towards passengers, which I perceive somewhat as a bias. The modes and terminals that support passengers have consequently received the bulk of the attention and parsing the topics presented at conferences such as the AAG confirms this view. Freight transportation has a reputation of being ‘‘uninteresting’’, probab...