Decision-making models often deal with problems that involve multiple criteria analysis in order to assess alternatives in various decision-making settings. On the basis of a systematic process, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has recently been recognized as a proven decision-making tool in a wide variety of fields. However, new methods to cope with evolving or scaled problems are emerging...

Today freight transport covers great importance in the field of the transportation system and in general in the economic system. It represents one of the most important elements in the national economy development process. In spite of the importance of freight transport, only in the last ten years the research devotes itself to this field. The most investigate topics are the national freight tr...

The European Union has looked to develop ICT systems that are open and interoperable. Through the case study of the Freightwise research project a research gap was identified: Is it possible to manage and plan co-modal freight transport without a centralised system? The adoption of software methodology and business process mapping enables the development and the validation of the Freightwise Fr...

A sustainable solution to social and environmental problems caused by growing road freight transport is intermodal transport with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to manage all operations in the entire transport chain. The European project GIFTS is developing an open access Internet portal/e-marketplace providing high-technology services to the transport and logistics industry in ...

We present TAPAS-Z, which is an agent-based freight transport analysis model for simulation of decision-making and transport activities. TAPAS-Z is a further development of a simulation model called TAPAS, and it has improved support for simulation of transport in large geographical regions. It is based on the principles that shipments are simulated for chosen supplier-consumer relations in a g...

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...

Understanding policy impacts on freight is essential for planners who have overlooked this transport group in the past and must evaluate new congestion alleviation policies with respect to regional economic and social goals. Since urban areas are limited in infrastructure expansion and travel demand continues to rise, congestion pricing is a potentially compelling policy alternative. This thesi...

The SAMGODS group i.e. the four public administration agencies for air, rail, road and maritime transport, SIKA (the Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis) and VINNOVA (the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems) is responsible for the commissioning of new models and tools for Swedish analyses of goods transport. A major development initiative is now considered related to t...