Despite its extensive coastline and network of ports the UK has ignored the potential of coastal RoRo ferries with rail freight seen as the only significant alternative to road freight. The ‘UK Marine Motorway Study’ is the first research study to provide a comprehensive review of the potential role of high-speed ferries in the long distance domestic freight market of the UK. From evidence gath...

The results presented in this article identify the role of costs in the scientific and grey freight terminal handling literature and analyses the handling costs of different terminal sizes. The literature review shows that handling costs only play a marginal role in the scientific research in intermodal rail freight terminals (IRT). This is remarkable given the large role costs occupy in decisi...

Modern logistics systems involves complicated interactions amongst many different decision agents within a complex supply chain structures. Accordingly, in contrast to passenger transport, choice decisions in freight transport are typically not concentrated in a single agent, but are co-operatively and sometimes competitively made with different degrees of relationships by multiple individuals ...

New technologies offer ways for railroads to reduce costs, increase market share, and achieve higher profitability. Determining the best opportunities requires understanding of the marketplace and translation of technological improvements into competitive advantage for the rail industry. This three-year research effort uses the Performance-Based Technology Scanning (PBTS) methodology for identi...

The Transportation Research Forum, founded in 1958, is an independent, nonprofit organization of transportation professionals who conduct, use, and benefit from research. Its purpose is to provide an impartial meeting ground for carriers, shippers, government officials, consultants, university researchers, suppliers, and others seeking exchange of information and ideas related to both passenger...

We contribute an extension of the agent-based freight transport analysis model TAPAS-Z, whose aim is to simulate decisionmaking and other activities in transport chains. TAPAS-Z is a further development of the TAPAS model, and it enables stochastic variation, based on statistical distributions, of the locations of senders and receivers of freight, hence providing improved support for simulation...

The present article focuses on the efficient deployment of dual locomotives in regional rail freight transport considering quantification traction energy and savings. In first part article, a categorization locomotives, according to their power output electric alternative (and ratio both outputs) is proposed. potential chosen Central European conditions (a sub-network Czech railway network arou...