With the remarkable development of international trade, global commodity circulation has grown significantly. To accomplish commodity circulation among various regions and countries, multi-modal transportation scheme has been widely adopted by a large number of companies. Meanwhile, according to the relevant statistics, the international logistics costs reach up to approximate 30-50% of the tot...

The development of the market international road freight transport directly depends on use innovative technologies in processes transportation, logistics, physical distribution, due to implementation concept Industry 4.0. This leads need restructure stereotypes operation and rapid introduction modern activities motor enterprises order increase economic efficiency their operation. article is dev...

Within the North American freight railroad industry, there is currently an effort to enable more intelligent telemetry for freight trains. By enabling greater visibility of their rolling stock, including locomotives and railroad cars, railroad companies hope to improve their asset utilization, operational safety, and business profitability. Different communication and sensing technologies are b...

Dynamical network systems are complex interconnected systems useful to describe many real world problems. The advances in information technology has led the current trend towards connecting more and more systems, creating “intelligent” systems, where the intelligence originates in the scale and complexity of the network. With the growing scale of networked systems comes also higher demands on p...

One of the core concepts in transport and economic geography states that transportation is a derived demand, both for passengers and freight transport alike. This assumption is reflected in the conventional literature which underlines that transport exists because it is the expression of a spatially differentiated function of supply and demand and is thus considered to be “derived” from other a...

(2011), Collaborative transportation sharing: from theory to practice via a case study from France. INTRODUCTION The freight transportation industry is a major source of employment and supports the economic development of the country. However, freight transportation has many negative aspects including congestion and environmental disturbance, which negatively affect quality of life, particularl...

92410 Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d'origine Complete document available on OLIS in its original format CEMT/CM(2000)19/FINAL 2 KEY ISSUES FOR DEBATE: The fundamental objective of regulatory reform for freight rail services is twofold: improvement of efficiency; and improvement of competitiveness in freight markets. Regulatory reform is intimately linked to structural re...

Trucking industry plays a vital role in road freight transportation, because of its ease of accessibility. A systematic approach for factors identification and its ranking is required based on their criticality which affects the industry performance. Ranking of the factors has been performed by using interval type 2 fuzzy FMEA approach.