Intermodal freight transport consists of using different modes without changing the load unit. This results in a significant reduction time that goods spend at intermodal terminals, where transshipment takes place. Drayage refers to on trucks among depots, customers and suppliers. In spite fact drayage only represents between 5 10 percent total distance, it may amount up more than 30 costs. The...

The goal of this paper is to combine the current theory about marketing channels with combined transport and logistics in order to develop a customer-based and broadly applicable approach to the study of combined freight transport in Europe. Furthermore, this paper seeks to provide an analytical framework as a starting point for the analysis of the performance-in terms of quality-of intermodal ...

Determining optimal routes for given freight is a core decision in logistics. In intermodal logistics, freight routing has to consider the interfaces between different modes of transportation, such as hand-over offsets, load changes, and organizational procedures. We study this problem from the perspective of Service-Oriented Computing (SOC). We (1) propose representing intermodal transport sys...

It is expected that freight transport in the European Union will grow significantly and road transport will account for a major part of this growth. By 2020 almost 30% of CO2 emissions in the European Union will be caused by transportation. It is obvious that our present patterns of transport growth are unsustainable. One way toward more sustainable transport is to explicitly take greenhouse ga...

Introduction The NETA project (North European Trade Axis) is a practical example of transnational spatial planning, focused on a broad trade and transport corridor along the axis from Ireland, across northern England (Liverpool, Heysham, Fleetwood-Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield-Humber Ports of Hull, Immingham and Grimsby) and via the short sea crossing to the Netherlands and Germany, with potenti...

This paper presents a multi objective chance constrained programming model for matching of goods and transports in an intermodal transport chain under uncertain delivery time. The objectives in the proposed model are cost, emission, and transport time, where time is considered as an uncertain parameter. An approach to solve the model is proposed, and this approach has been implemented in a web-...

In the management of container sea-rail intermodal transportation, dynamic pricing problem with uncertain conditions has significant impacts on the benefit and competitiveness of a multimodal transport operator. Based on the revenue management theory and the features of container sea-rail intermodal transport, this paper develops a two stages optimal model which integrates dynamic pricing and s...

Title of Document: Intermodal Transfer Coordination in Logistic Networks Cheng-Chieh (Frank) Chen, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Directed By: Dr. Paul M. Schonfeld, Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Increasing awareness that globalization and information technology affect the patterns of transport and logistic activities has increased interest in the integration of interm...