Download or read book The Future of Intermodal Freight Transportation in Canada written by Ata M. Khan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Intermodal Freight Transport written by J. W. Konings and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . the book will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Competition and Regulation in Network Industries The book is well balanced. . . The authors depict the reality of this complex world and identify the right strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Bart Jourquin, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research . . . the editors and the expert contributors provide a timely overview of the present role and challenges of intermodal freight transport. . . the book will not only be appealing to academics and researchers with an interest in the emerging field of intermodal transport research. As the book is largely kept at an executive and policy level, it is also appealing to practitioners and policy makers. . . the book is a valuable contribution to the study of intermodal freight transport as a new transportation research application field. It is an essential reading for all stakeholders in the field of intermodal freight transportation, providing them with insight and tools to address the mounting academic and practical challenges in this segment of the transport and logistics market. Theo Notteboom, Journal of Transport Geography This book explores the great challenge of increasing the scope of intermodal freight transport. In view of the current dominant role of road transport and the increasing difficulties in coping with a growing number of vehicles in an efficient and sustainable way, intermodal freight transport could be considered a viable alternative. However, the book makes recognition of the fact that there is still a need to improve the performance of the intermodal transport system. The expert contributors provide an overview of the present role of intermodal freight transport, address opportunities to significantly improve current performance, and demonstrate design and modelling tools used to analyse and support this performance. Requirements for the implementation of intermodal innovations are also prescribed, and policies needed to improve competitiveness are outlined. Many factors contributing to the performance and competitiveness of intermodal freight transport are explored, from technological and organisational innovations through to institutional settings and policy frameworks. This comprehensive range of topics will attract a broad audience including academics, researchers, policymakers and practitioners involved in the design and development of freight transport systems. It will also strongly appeal to those with an interest in the future of freight transport.
Download or read book The Future of Intermodal Freight Transport Within the Province of New Brunswick written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rail Freight and Truck Transportation written by Ata M. Khan and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Canada s Rail and Truck Transportation written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides a brief discussion of the rail and, to a lesser extent, the truck modes of freight transportation in Canada. The author presents a brief historical overview of the rail industry, followed by some of the pressing financial issues affecting that industry in the present day. He then identifies certain questions regarding the need for the rail and trucking industries to work together for their mutual benefit. The questions can be summarized as follows: What is the right mix of 'roads'--both highway and rail, and How can the best use be made of public and private expenditure? The author concludes with a wish that the two modes increase their cooperation. He links Canada's trading prosperity to its ability to promote intermodal cooperation.
Download or read book Literature Review on Intermodal Freight Transportation written by Canada. Transport Canada. Policy Group. Strategic Policy Directorate. Policy Research Branch and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rail Intermodal Future Options written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rail intermodal now represents approximately 15% of the total freight revenue for the Canadian railways. In spite of rail intermodal's growth, however, truck transport has made significant gains in market share and is now the predominant mode of freight transport in North America. Over the past few years, there has been a renewed interest in rail intermodal with the successful introduction of new technologies such as double-stack train services and RoadRailer in the United States. However, the extent to which these new technologies can help rail intermodal to penetrate the truckload motor carrier market is still a very debatable issue. The purpose of this paper is to examine the future of rail intermodal in light of its evolution, the current and future market situation, and an evaluation of the cost and service competitiveness of the new rail intermodal technologies. The results are primarily based on a study carried out by Peat Marwick Stevenson & Kellogg in association with R.L. Banks & Associates for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, entitled 'Intermodal Options Study'. Additional research has been carried out to augment the study results for the purposes of this paper. The research results indicate that the new rail intermodal technologies are more cost competitive than conventional services and have the potential to make inroads in truckload motor carrier markets if door-to-door service levels can be made competitive with motor carriers. For the covering abstract of the Conference see IRRD Abstract No. 807661.
Download or read book Intermodal Freight Transportation written by Vasco Reis and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intermodal Freight Transportation conceptualizes intermodal transport as a set of physical, logical, financial and contractual flows, examining the barriers that impact intermodal freight services and the resulting performance variables. The book covers transport modes, agents, supply and demand patterns, key drivers, trends influencing the freight transportation sector, the evolution of supply and logistics chains, and the impacts of technological advancements, such as autonomous vehicles and e-commerce. In addition, the book covers transport agents, such as shippers, freight forwarders, integrators, and customs, as well as the demand for freight transport services and the key properties of goods. Readers will find a variety of new tools for analyzing and building effective transport chains that addresses component technology, information, responsibility, and financing dimension, along with sections on key organizational, regulatory, infrastructure and technological barriers. The book concludes with a look into the future of the freight transport sector. Presents a step-by-step approach that introduces key topics for understanding efficient intermodal transportation Focuses on the concept of fitness between the modes of transport profiles Contains numerous, real-world case studies throughout Examines performance metrics
Download or read book The Future of Intermodal Freight Transport Within the Province of New Brunswick written by John Robert Gordon Brander and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fast forward written by Richard John Hillestad and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On January 29, 2009, the RAND Corporation hosted a panel discussion with three former U.S. Secretaries of Transportation [William T. Coleman, Jr., James H. Burnley IV, and Rodney Slater]. This wide-ranging discussion, held the week after President Barack Obama's inauguration and during the congressional debate over the stimulus package (eventually passed as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009), allowed the former secretaries to share their insights into transportation policymaking"--Preface
Download or read book The Future of the Truck and Rail Modes as Carriers of Freight in Canada written by Joint Program in Transportation (Toronto, Ont.) and published by Joint Program in Transportation. This book was released on 1979 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Intermodal Freight Transport Operations Design and Policy written by Rob Konings and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intermodal transport operations. Design and modelling. Implementation and policy.
Download or read book Intermodal Freight Technology Study written by Michael E. Kieran and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intermodal Freight Transport written by David Lowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the whole concept of intermodal freight transport, the means of delivering goods using two or more transport modes, recounting both European experience and UK developments and reporting on the extensive political influences on this form of transport. This is placed into context with reference to developments in North America and Asia. Detailed explanations are given of the road and rail vehicles, the loading units and the transfer equipment used in such operations. In particular, the role of the Channel Tunnel in the development of long-haul combined transport operations between the UK and Europe is considered.
Download or read book Evaluating the Performance of the Freight Transportation System of the Great Lakes Region written by Qifeng Wang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimizing the supply chain has been increasingly important for the success of both manufacturers and retailers. This optimization has reduced costs for companies that are involved in the transport process and reduced cost to the end consumers, which brings benefits to both sides of the profit chain. Under difficult economic conditions, such as high fuel prices, mass congestion on major highway corridors, and strict reliability requirements for specific commodity types, the tangible as well as the intangible costs of freight transportation has been increasing rapidly. It swallows profits from the industry, increasing the cost for customers. Intermodal freight transportation has been introduced in recent years and has been more frequently selected by logistics companies, third-party logistics companies, and manufacturers to optimize the whole freight transport process. The trend of using more intermodal freight transportation is discussed in a qualitative perspective in the first part of this dissertation. Then the dissertation introduces a new shortest path algorithm entitled Tree Spanning Method (TSM) for large network processing. The new TSM algorithm is used as the main route planning algorithm throughout the dissertation for software development as well as freight demand forecasting. Due to the lack of specialized intermodal freight planning software in the industry, this dissertation discusses the key techniques in creating a specialized freight planning software, and a beta version of the software entitled "RouteInfo" is developed and introduced. The software works in a fashion similar to the Spatial Decision Support System. It enables users to be fully involved in the decision-making process and is able to determine the least expensive path between origins and designations on an integrated intermodal network. Real data includes USA highways and Canadian highways, and rail and maritime networks are integrated into the graphical user interface. Freight demand forecasting in the Great Lakes region is another focus of this dissertation. By using a four-step freight demand forecasting model at disaggregated (county) level, the travel patterns of freight transportation between 2010 and 2030 are obtained in the research area. The forecasting result is then used to quantitatively analyze the cost benefits of using more intermodal transportation options. Under the current situation of limited budgets, this dissertation proposes an intermodal solution that is able to solve the congestion issue without any highway expansion in the research area. The cost saving of this solution is also analyzed quantitatively. Overall, this dissertation is similar to a comprehensive consulting report. It proposes a new, shortest path algorithm which can be applied to the intermodal route planning. A new intermodal freight planning software is developed under a Python-based framework. The travel pattern of the freight transportation is estimated in the near future, and a solution is proposed to improve the transportation system in the research area in a cost-effective fashion.
Download or read book Intermodal Freight Transportation written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines recent trends in intermodal rail transportation; assessed the prospects for more intermodal cooperation between the rail and trucking industries; identified problems that limit the effectiveness and benefits of intermodal transportation, and considered whether any federal initiatives might be helpful in encouraging intermodal cooperation. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Intermodal Transportation for Containers and Trailers an Exploratory Study written by Bish, Lucille and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
