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Simulation model and intelligent optimization methods for freight transportation under the digital transformation of the transport system of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Kamysbayeva, Aizhan; Khussanov, Alisher; Kaldybayeva, … - 2026

Background: In the context of the digital transformation of transport systems and the increasing complexity of logistics flows, the role of intelligent route forming methods capable of accounting for the spatial structure of transport networks, time constraints and resource limitations is...

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Freight allocation logistics for HSR intermodal networks : GNN-RL implementation and Ottawa-Quebec corridor case study

Ren, Yong Lin; Awasthi, Anjali - 2026

Background: Freight allocation is a vital decision in distribution logistics to minimize costs and gain environmental benefits. In this paper, we address the problem of freight allocation optimization on an HSR intermodal network with application for the Ottawa-Quebec City corridor where the HSR...

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Multi-objective integrated sustainable supply chain scheduling with environmentally friendly and time windows freight transportation

Ganjia, Maliheh; Rabet, Rahmat; Sajadi, Seyed Mojtaba; … - 2026

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Time segmentation in tanker freight markets : the role of risk and relative freight rates in switching decisions

Kavussanos, Manolis G.; Moysiadou, Stergiani (Stella) A.; … - 2026

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Sustainability initiatives in the Spanish road freight transport companies

Vazquez-Noguerol, Mar; Gonzalez-Romero, Iria; … - 2026

Purpose: The objective of this study is to examine the status of implementation of 13 sustainability initiatives that impact road freight performance.Design/methodology/approach: Through an empirical analysis with information collected from surveys carried out on 368 Spanish road transport...

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Glossary for Transport Statistics : 6th edition : 2026

2026

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Explaining divergence in ocean freight rates and passenger fares, 1863-1913

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2026

Late nineteenth-century globalisation was fostered by falling transport costs in ocean shipping as average freight rates fell by about half. The literature has emphasised the importance of progress in steamship technology in explaining this trend. Passenger fares did not share this long-run...

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A roadmap approach to enhancing ESG and operational performance in road freight logistics

Reis, Beatriz Lavezo; Puglieri, Fabio Neves; Piekarski, … - 2026

Background: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices have evolved from regulatory requirements to strategic drivers of competitiveness and long-term value creation, particularly in road freight logistics, where environmental impacts, greenhouse gas emissions, labor relations, and...

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An enhanced pricing model for truck transportation : a case study in Swedish forestry

Rönnqvist, Mikael; Flisberg, Patrik; Svenson, Gunnar; … - 2026

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Decarbonizing Road freight transportation in Saudi Arabia

Xun, Xu; Kamboj, Puneet; Almutairi, Saif; Gertin, Thomas; … - 2025

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Dynamic shipment-to-service matching for interurban synchromodal transport systems with shared resources

Guo, Wenjing; Crainic, Teodor Gabriel; Gendreau, Michel; … - 2025

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Angola sustainable freight transport assessment

2025

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Knowledge and strategies for facilitating urban freight and last-mile deliveries amid digital transitions

Sund, Astrid Bjørgen; Pitera, Kelly; Karlsson, Hampus; … - 2025

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Infrastructure and Regulatory Needs for Green Freight Corridors

Bellas Lamas, Carlos; Gabriel Pereira, Carlos; Moody, Joanna - 2025

Decarbonizing Brazil's road freight transport sector is essential to achieving the country's 2050 emission targets. To scale this effort, Brazil must transition from diesel-powered trucks to low- and zero-carbon alternatives powered by electricity or hydrogen, each requiring substantial...

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Direct and cross cost elasticity estimations for freight transport in Europe using constructed dependent variables

Jourquin, Bart - 2025

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STraM : a strategic network design model for national freight transport decarbonization

Bakker, Steffen J. S.; Martin, Jonas; Beesten, E. Ruben van - 2025

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Predicting inland waterway freight demand with a dynamic spatio-temporal graph attention-based multi attention network

Zhang, Lingyu; Schacht, Oliver; Liu, Qing; Ng, Koi Yu Adolf - 2025

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Data-driven predictive model for dynamic expected travel time estimation in rail freight networks : a case study

Kumar, Suraj; Sharma, Ayush; Kumar, Gaurav - 2025

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To ride or to fly : optimal freight-on-transit operations using drones

Osorio, Jesus; Ouyang, Yanfeng - 2025

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Ukraine's Transport and Logistics System

2025

Maintaining and improving the efficiency of Ukraine's transport system for international trade is vital in supporting the competitiveness of the country in global markets, especially since most of Ukraine's exports are low-profit-margin commodities that are sensitive to transport costs. While...

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Strategic expansion of freight transportation hub networks under demand uncertainty

Li, Hao; Taherkhani, Gita; Alumur, Sibel A.; Hewitt, Mike - 2025

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The role of hubs and economies of scale in network expansion

Setiawan, Fran; Bektaş, Tolga; Iris, Çağatay - 2025

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Operational planning for multi-modal multi-stakeholder transportation systems with shared capacities

Guo, Wenjing; Crainic, Teodor Gabriel; Gendreau, Michel; … - 2025

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Using public transport system for sustainable urban freight delivery

Halyna, Pivtorak; Libor, Švadlenka - 2025

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East Africa freight transport : enhancing regional connectivity

Macharia, Josephine - 2025

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Sea and air intermodal freight transport from East Asia to North America : from the viewpoint of cost efficiency

Ishiguro, Kazuhiko; Ishihara, Hiroyuki; Takebayashi, Mikio - 2025

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An innovative modelling framework for freight consolidation in transportation planning

Kumar, Manoj; Anoop K. P. - 2025

This paper addresses freight consolidation in rail transportation planning. Multiple demand destinations are served in a single trip to utilise the volume discount on freight rate. An efficient mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) based modelling framework is proposed to optimally allocate...

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Road freight transport methodology : 2025 edition

2025 - 2025 edition

The present document describes the methods used by Member States, candidate and EFTA countries in their surveys on road freight transport statistics. Part I describes national methodologies for data collection. This information is based on the national reference metadata produced by the...

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Requirements for the automated loading and unloading of autonomous trucks : an interoperability perspective

Thylén, Nils; Flodén, Jonas; Johansson, Mats I.; … - 2025

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Scheduled service network design for intercontinental rail freight transport

Shan, Jing; Preis, Henning; Bešinović, Nikola; … - 2025

Intercontinental rail freight transport has made significant strides in recent years, demonstrating its potential as a critical player in the global supply chain, such as Eurasian rail freight transport. However, Eurasian rail freight transport encounters challenges, including the presence of...

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50 years of Operations Research for the tactical planning of consolidation-based freight transportation

Crainic, Teodor Gabriel; Rei, Walter - 2025

Consolidation-based freight transportation supports a large and valuable part of world trade, over short, medium, long, and intercontinental distances, which all societies depend on and thrive on. It is carried out by carriers that supply the resources and services that meet the demands...

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Advancing freight demand prediction : unified destination and mode choice models in extra-urban transportation

Afandizadeh, Shahriar; Akhoundi, Amin; Mirzahossein, Hamid - 2025

Freight transportation modeling represents the economic demand for moving goods across spatial networks. Traditional models often treat transportation mode and destination choice as separate processes. This paper introduces an innovative framework that synthesizes a joint choice structure with a...

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Agent-based simulation modeling of multimodal transport flows in transportation system of Kazakhstan

Khussanov, Alisher; Kaldybayeva, Botagoz; Prokhorov, … - 2025

Background: Kazakhstan's transport system plays a key role in Eurasian logistics due to its position along the Middle Corridor. However, multimodal freight transport remains under-optimized due to infrastructure bottlenecks, uneven cargo flows, and limited digital tools for forecasting and...

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Modal distribution diversification and intermodal transport analysis in Europe : a comprehensive investigation of freight transport patterns

Castro, Ana; Ludke, Gabriel; Dias, Vânia; Longras, Sónia - 2025

Background: This study analyzes modal distribution patterns across Europe and 28 European countries, employing clustering analysis to identify trends in transport mode utilization. The research quantifies logistics diversification, examining extreme cases and addressing gaps in understanding...

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Logistics hub location for high-speed rail freight transport : case Ottawa-Quebec City corridor

Ren, Yong Lin; Awasthi, Anjali - 2025

Background: This paper develops a novel, interdisciplinary framework for optimizing high-speed rail (HSR) freight logistics hubs in the Ottawa-Quebec City corridor, addressing critical gaps in geospatial mismatches, static optimization limitations, and narrow sustainability scopes found in the...

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Carbon pricing and the truckload spot market

Balthrop, Andrew; Kistler, Justin T.; Bolumole, Yemisi; … - 2025

Background: Carbon pricing in the form of fuel taxes is an important tool for abating climate change. This study examines the impact and pass-through of fuel taxes in the truckload freight market. Methods: State-level truckload market data, integrated with retail diesel prices, are analyzed...

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Adaptive intermodal transportation for freight resilience : an integrated and flexible strategy for managing disruptions

Filom, Siyavash; Dewantara, Satrya; Saeednia, Mahnam; … - 2025

Background: Disruptions in freight transportation-such as service delays, infrastructure failures, and labor strikes-pose significant challenges to the reliability and efficiency of intermodal networks. To address these challenges, this study introduces Adaptive Intermodal Transportation (AIT),...

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Towards a concept for a multifunctional mobility hub : combining multimodal services, urban logistics, and energy

Fahlbusch, Jonas; Fischer, Felix; Gegner, Martin; … - 2025

Background: This paper proposes a conceptual framework for a multifunctional mobility hub (MMH) that co-locates shared e-mobility services, urban logistics, and charging/storage infrastructure within a single site. Aimed at high-density European cities, the MMH model addresses current gaps in...

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The role of walkability in shaping shopping and delivery services : insights into e-consumer behavior

Oliveira, Leise Kelli de; Colaço, Rui; Araújo, … - 2025

Background: As e-commerce expands and delivery services diversifies, understanding the factors that shape consumer preferences becomes critical to designing efficient and sustainable urban logistics. This study examines how perceived walkability influences consumers' preferences for shopping...

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An exact approach for the charging station location selection problem in urban freight transport

Dimitriou, Paraskevi; Nikolopoulou, Amalia; … - 2025

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European climate law-aligned transition pathways : Sectoral fiche: Transport : water freight

2025

The objective of providing European Climate Law-aligned pathways and the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) underpinning them is to offer a reference that companies can draw on to prepare their transition plans. By addressing an intermediate level between companies and the EU's economy-wide...

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European climate law-aligned transition pathways : Sectoral fiche: Transport : air freight & passenger

2025

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A hybrid combination approach to forecast freight rates volatility

Alizadeh-Masoodian, Amir H.; Groven, B. R.; Marchese, M.; … - 2025

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A cost and emission optimization framework for strategic intermodal freight transportation infrastructure development

Abusalih, Ayoub; Liu, Zeyu - 2025

The freight transportation sector is critical to the economic prosperity in the US, but it also constitutes a major source of carbon emissions. Although intermodal transportation has been shown to increase operating efficiency and reduce carbon emissions, research on infrastructural support for...

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Continuous-time service network design with stochastic travel times

Lanza, Giacomo; Crainic, Teodor Gabriel; Passacantando, … - 2024

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Service network design for consolidation-based transportation : the fundamentals

Crainic, Teodor Gabriel - 2024

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Service network design for consolidation-based transportation : advanced topics

Crainic, Teodor Gabriel - 2024

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Ensuring fair compensation : analyzing and adjusting freight forwarder liability limits

Poliak, Miloš; Salamakhina, Ekaterina - 2024

Background: Due to the absence of unified global regulations, defining the service and legal role of freight forwarders is challenging. This, as well as the lack of a standardized limit to the freight forwarder's liability for loss or damage to the cargo, introduces misunderstandings into his...

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State fragility, violence and trade : dangerous trade routes in Colombia

Jung, Paul H.; Thill, Jean-Claude; Galvis Aponte, Luis … - 2024

We investigate the effect of domestic armed violence brought about by insecurity on the geography of freight mobility and the resulting differential access of regions to global markets. There is a preponderance of evidence from the micro-level analysis of Colombia-U.S. export shipping records...

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From coast to coast : an estimation of import exposure at the subnational level

Phillips, Paul - 2024

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