The movement of goods from origin to destination takes place over multiple modes of transportation. Correspondingly, intermodal terminals play an important role in facilitating transportation over the multimodal network. This paper studies multimodal transport networks and their impact on...

Background: An increasing number of container and chassis staging, "dray-off", drop yard, and depot facilities are being established outside of North American marine container terminals. The increased use of these "second-tier" facilities implies that there must be some capacity, delivery time,...

This paper analyzes the importance of bimodal solutions in the rail-road transport of goods with an emphasis on the aspect of ecology within the geographical region of EU-28. Using the panel regression analysis in the period from 2010 to 2019, we are trying to confirm the dependence between the...

Der Schienengüterverkehr ist im Hinblick auf den Klimaschutz zu einem Hoffnungsträger für mehr Nachhaltigkeit im Verkehrssektor geworden. Für die Transportverlagerung von Gütern auf die Schiene ist es notwendig, die Einsatzmöglichkeiten dieses Verkehrsträgers zu erweitern. Dabei stellen...

The purpose of this article is to offer a literature review on the development and classification of inland terminals, later defined as “dry ports”. The aim of the paper is to analyze the extant literature on dry ports focusing on their concept, classification, function and technological...

Purpose: A wide range of customer relationships, services and organizational interfaces characterizes inland intermodal terminals, which are hubs of combined transport. The purposes of this paper are twofold. The first is to highlight challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) at the...

The paper at hand discusses the different typologies of combined transportation in Europe. It shows that an improvement of handling infrastructure for combined transport can positively reduce environmental costs of trading between regions. However, the expected emission reduction effects are...

Road transportation has been the dominant mode for inland freight transportation for decades. Rail and waterways transportation are less frequently used alternatives, but in general more attractive from an environmental perspective. Even though many policies promoting the use of intermodal...

In 2013 Chinese government unveiled one of the biggest transport plan schemes worldwide: the One Belt One Road (OBOR) strategy, now called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This scheme includes the development of a group of specific transport and logistics corridors that encompass three...

Sind KEP-Logistik und Verkehrssysteme des ÖPNV kompatibel? -- Logistische Eignung der ÖPNV-Verkehrssysteme: Verkehrsträger Schiene -- Logistische Eignung der ÖPNV-Verkehrssysteme: Verkehrsträger Straße -- Fazit und Schlusswort.

A new multi-objective intermodal hub-location-allocation problem is modeled in this paper in which both the origin and the destination hub facilities are modeled as an M/M/m queuing system. The problem is being formulated as a constrained bi-objective optimization model to minimize the total...

In transportation via containers, unbalanced movement of loaded containers forces shipping companies to reposition empty containers. This study addresses the problem of empty container repositioning (ECR) in the distribution network of a European logistics company, where some restrictions impose...