Six principles for operation of the rail part of intermodal rail freight transport systems are described: direct link, corridor, hub-and-spoke, connected hubs, static routes, and dynamic routes. The first part is a theoretical discussion of the characteristics of the transport network designs. The theory is then applied to intermodal freight transport by analysing how each transport network des...

The Port of Tacoma (Washington) desired to implement a real-time Web-based Rail Management System for the purposes of Intermodal decision support visualization and data display, management, planning, and for facilitating operational analysis. The Port currently uses Signal CC software and an array of distributed sensors throughout the Port facility for real-time rail data capture. The solution ...

Much of the early 1860s discontent with railRepresentatives). This deregulatory action perroads was centered in agricultural regions, parmits greater reliance on the marketplace for purticularly the new regions of the West, where poses of rate determination. Accordingly, many monopolistic price discrimination was most easproducers and agricultural shippers believe that ily practiced by railroad...

Abstract This paper addresses the multi-objective optimization for road–rail intermodal routing problem that aims to minimize total costs and carbon dioxide emissions of routes. To achieve high timeliness entire transportation process, pickup delivery services are simultaneously improved based on employment fuzzy soft time windows measure their service levels. The modeling considers fixed sched...

Agricultural transportation is often characBACKGROUND terized by seasonal and cyclical traffic flows that unfavorably affect the logistical efficiency of the marketing system. Congestion problems are an important link in the arise in the truck-to-ship intermodal grain export grain marketing system. Currently, 66 transfer system at the Port of Houston. Seaport elevators operate in the U.S. and t...

The effect of crystal size on VHP sugar colour was evaluated on a factory scale over the 1988/89 season at Sezela. Generally, smaller crystals produced lower sugar colour but the difference wasnot significant (at the 5% level) in the size range tested. Smallercrystals producedloweraffinated sugarcolourand the difference was significant at the 5% level. The mass of sugar in a full rail truck was...

Dry port is an inland intermodal terminal directly linked by road or rail to a seaport as a center for the transshipment of sea freight to inland destinations. However roads contribute to pollution more than rail. For sustainable transportation systems, we need to improve the performance of rail dry port systems. The purpose of this research is to propose a diagnostic system for modeling and cl...

The determination of the optimal carrying capacity procurement of rail and shipping services in the automobile intermodal network with unique characteristics is essential to save automobile delivery cost. In this research we develop a two-stage stochastic programming model for the tactical-level decision problem arising in the special automobile intermodal network. Furthermore, we improve the s...

The demand for natural gas (NG) in Thailand has been continuously increasing, but part of NG volume not distributed to customers locating far from the pipeline network. Therefore, is transported by trucks liquid form called liquefied (LNG) meet demand. However, road transportation truck causes many problems such as high cost, low capacity, poor environmental conditions, and safety. To solve the...

In this paper we present the application of the PLATFORM simulation tool to the evaluation of alternative management strategies of intermodal terminals. First, the Platform simulation tool is briefly introduced, then it is used in the context of Cost benefit Analysis and Multi Criteria Analysis to assess the impact of alternative investements in terminal management: adoption of computer based m...