Infrastructural, Decisional and Organizational Aspects to Use Mode Shift to Handle Disruptions in Freight Transport: Literature and Expert Survey

Freight transport disruptions in recent years caused production shutdowns the industry, supply shortages and high economic damage around world. In practice, contingency strategies from operators are often weak disruption management fails to handle situation sufficiently. Despite availability of data collection, academic optimization approaches, multiple initiatives for coordinated multimodal case disruptions, there infrastructural, decisional organizational issues, which limit their applicability. We study those factors by a literature analysis, survey we ask practitioners, authorities experts discuss specific aspect structured unstructured form. summarize some parameters, can be influenced strategic, tactical, operational actions, others referring systemic properties; or characteristics, only hedged against. Hereby, offer knowledge base future projects aiming optimize at strategic tactical scope, counter freight networks.