Abstract Container on Barge (COB) facilitates intermodal transportation by transporting shipping containers barge tows. COB has seen rapid expansion globally over the past 20 years, providing a cost-efficient, environmentally friendly, and congestion-reducing mode of container transportation. European countries have led in both study application two decades. However, increasing interest is obse...

In this paper, the effects of container size on the porosity of random loose packing of mono size particles have been investigated using an Event Dynamics (ED) based model. Simultaneous effects of square container walls on particles packing and their order are also investigated. Our simulation results indicate higher container size will increase the total packing factor and high density regions...

this study analyses the concept of cost functions for semi-automated straddle carrier (sc), rubber tyred gantry (rtg) and automated rail mounted gantry (rmg) container yard operating cranes. it develops a generic cost based model for a pair-wise comparison, analysis and evaluation of economic efficiency and effectiveness of container yard equipment to be used for decision-making by terminal pla...

Container flows in the hinterland of maritime transport chains are implemented using coordinated logistics processes, which are dependent upon information exchanges between various actors. To be effective and efficient, these logistics processes require a seamless information flow between these actors. However, this does not always occur with hinterland transportation by rail, as is shown by Al...