Intermodal freight transportation is concerned with shipping of commodities from their origin to destination using combinations of transport modes. Traditional logistics models have concentrated on minimizing transportation costs by appropriately determining the service network and the transportation routing. This paper considers an intermodal transportation problem with an explicit considerati...

An intermodal transportation terminal is a facility that provides commuters with easy transfer between many transit modes and providers such as buses, light rail, subway, taxis, airport shuttles, and commuter rails. The probability of a passenger transferring from one mode to another and the estimation of total transfer demand are of great importance to both practitioners and researchers when d...

Project Objectives The main purpose of this project is to analyze the impact of intermodal facilities in the design of supply chains for biofuel production facilities. This objective will be attained by pursuing two specific aims: (a) Build mathematical models that will be used to design the in-bound and out-bound supply chain of a biorefinery. This model will take as an input (i) location of e...

We used event-related potentials (ERPs) and gamma band oscillatory responses (GBRs) to examine whether intermodal attention operates early in the auditory, visual, and tactile modalities. To control for the effects of spatial attention, we spatially coregistered all stimuli and varied the attended modality across counterbalanced blocks in an intermodal selection task. In each block, participant...

This paper describes the scope and initial findings of a study undertaken for the California Department of Transportation that is exploring opportunities to improve intermodal connectivity at California airports. It summarizes the findings of case studies of 13 airports in the state that examined opportunities to improve intermodal connectivity at those airports and discusses the issues involve...

We investigate the stability of optical solitons in few-mode fibers by solving numerically coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations that include intermodal nonlinear coupling. While a single fundamental soliton propagating in any fiber mode is stable, simultaneous propagation of two or more solitons in different fiber modes is not always stable and leads to interesting effects resulting from int...

Using the data obtained from the structured interviews of 33 professionals with a high level of technical knowledge specific to the subject of intermodal rail yards and their associated operations, this study addresses 10 issues that cover not only the design and layout issues within a terminal, but also broader topics such as administration/ownership, location, and other topics that may be ove...

The Truck Factor designates the minimal number of developers that have to be hit by a truck (or quit) before a project is incapacitated. It can be seen as a measurement of the concentration of information in individual team members. We calculate the Truck Factor for 133 popular GitHub applications, in six languages. Results show that most systems have a small truck factor (46% have Truck Factor...

Possibility of description of the glass transition in terms of critical dynamics considering a hierarchy of the intermodal relaxation time is shown. The generalized Vogel-Fulcher law for the system relaxation time is derived in terms of this approach. It is shown that the system satisfies the fluctuating–dissipative theorem in case of the absence of the intermodal relaxation time hierarchy.

The transport system is one of the main bottlenecks world’s largest producer and exporter soybeans, Brazil. Long-distance truck transportation grains increases costs, food waste, CO2 emissions. To handle these problems, Brazilian government seeks to expand through national logistics plan (PNLT), promoting efficient operations. Collaborating on environmental aspect, this paper proposes sustainab...