Many countries have enhanced their air quality agenda (NOx, PMx etc.) by a climate change (CO2 etc.). A direct way to lower these emissions is using less energy (fuel) per activity. One of activities freight transport. Transport from supplier factory relies on efficient and cost-effective means Road transport (trucking) usually preferred. But, trucking still very dependent fossil fuels. It also...

The European railway sector is undergoing dramatic changes. During the still ongoing liberalization process most vertically-integrated railway operators have already been “unbundled”. The shift from integrated to disintegrated companies coupled with the introduction of competition – so far in freight, but as of 2010 also in international passenger traffic – is having profound implications on th...

In railway operations, a timetable is established to determine the departure and arrival times for the trains or other rolling stock at the different stations or relevant points inside the rail network or a subset of this network. The elaboration of this timetable is done to respond to the commercial requirements for both passenger and freight traffic, but also it must respect a set of security...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-term cointegrating relationship between ocean, rail, truck and air cargo freight rates, as well short-term dynamics these four series. authors also test predictive ability rates on major economic indicators. Design/methodology/approach employ a vector error-correction model using 16 years monthly time series data rate in truck, rail secto...

In recent years, China keeps working on restructuring the country’s multimodal transport and highly develops high-speed rail (HSR) infrastructure to improve efficiency. As economic engine of China, Yangtze River Delta region leading HSR development transporting modal transformation within whole country. The fast one hand improves passengers’ travel efficiency and, other hand, releases capacity ...