Transportation for any country is a vital aspect of its social and economic life; it enhances trade needs whereby the country’s manufacturing, industrial tourism and distribution needs are served. Therefore, a vibrant, responsive, effective and efficient transport system will enhance Nigeria’s economic, developmental and strategic roles in the global system/economy. It is for this reason that T...

We investigate a spectrum of decision-making approaches, from centralized to decentralized, within the context of scheduling direct and indirect (via a hub) trains and assigning containers to trains for the rail (linehaul) portion of the intermodal trip. The goal is to minimize operating costs, including a fixed charge for each train, variable transportation and handling costs for each containe...

At rail-road transshipment yards, gantry cranes move containers from freight trains to trucks and vice versa. They constitute important entities in today's intermodal transportation systems. Real-world yards are often partitioned into several disjunct crane areas, so that crane interferences during container transshipment are avoided. In practice, the lengths of such crane areas are typically d...

A major feature of intermodal transportation systems is the presence of large container terminals, where loading and unloading of containers are split in different tasks that depend on carrier categories, cargo types and service requirements. The efficiency of a terminal is influenced by the ability to manage the various transfer tasks done by means of quay cranes, transfer cranes, trucks and s...

Dry port is an inland intermodal terminal directly linked by road or rail to a seaport as a center for the transshipment of sea freight to inland destinations. However roads contribute to pollution more than rail. For sustainable transportation systems, we need to improve the performance of rail dry port systems. The purpose of this research is to propose a diagnostic system for modeling and cl...

This paper considers the transportation of prefabricated products in construction industry. Prefabricated can be transported by road transport or intermodal transport, latter which incurs lower carbon emissions. A contractor always selects mode with a cost rather than one emission. bi-level programming model was formulated to decide optimal subsidy for achieve lowest emissions while accounting ...

Intermodality has been a hot topic in the logistics sector for several decades, but the expected diffusion into business is still limited. The key to increased intermodalism lies at the intermodal terminal. This paper puts forward four literature-based propositions that should be part of the future research agenda for intermodal terminals. In order to realise the intermodal terminal of the futu...

Train planning is the process of assigning containers to certain wagons on an intermodal train. Currently, there is limited decision support used for train planning in Australia leading to costly rehandles when loading trains. Intermodal terminals are highly integrated systems that create a difficult planning environment for computerised decision support systems. We have addressed this difficul...

To solve the multimodal transport route optimization problem considering carbon emission, vehicle speed has time-varying characteristics, and customer a time window limit. The emission of system is affected by energy consumption vehicles in network. network uncertain, emissions may continue to rise after gradual decline. Based on this, this study established sum cost, transportation penalty cos...