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Fundamental Analyses for Constructing Road-rail Intermodal Freight Transport System

Fundamental Analyses for Constructing Road-rail Intermodal Freight Transport System

Authors :
Kazuki Tamura
Guoquan Li
Daiki Okuda
Masai Muto
Source :
Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology. 14:1-7
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2014.

Abstract

Intermodal transport generally concerns a few of fundamental elements such as freight's characteristics, shippers' and forwarder evaluations, etc.. The freight's characteristics decide the relevant potential demands and the possibility to combine different transport means into intermodalism. The evaluations of shippers and forwarders always have an important impact on the selections of transport. This paper comparatively analyzes the critical elements of freight's characteristics, shippers' and forwarder evaluations. Moreover, the possibilities and relevant issues to form the road-rail intermodal freight transport are discussed, and some suggestions are proposed to improve the railway freight services.

Details

ISSN :
15706672
Volume :
14
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........030b1331893c2d63d440d1c169fd5c35
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/s1570-6672(13)60143-9