Purpose: Multimodal freight transport developed in the transportation sector as an alternative to unimodal transport faced with the challenges brought by the growing global demand for transporting goods. Multimodal transport is the transportation of goods using at least two modes of transport, usually door-to-door. The common transport modes include railways, maritime routes, and the roads. Whe...

This report explores pathways to reducing transportation based carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. The goal is to analyze the feasibility of reducing the level of transportation based carbon dioxide emissions in 2050 to 50% of the level they were at in 2005. Emissions have been steadily rising over the past century, and if left uncurbed, will have a negative effect on the quality of ...

The paper describes a prototype Dynamic Freight Traffic Simulation model called DyFTS, constructed for studying the effects of highly developed information technologies and logistic strategies on freight transportation. DyFTS is designed as a highly adaptable system that can be easily embedded into a more comprehensive transportation simulation model. Various decision-making processes are formu...

The locomotive assignment and the freight train scheduling are important problems in railway transportation. Freight cars are coupled to form a freight rake. The freight rake becomes a train when a locomotive is coupled to it. The locomotive assignment problem assigns locomotives to a set of freight rakes in a way that, with minimum locomotive deadheading time, rake coupling delay and locomotiv...

Transportation planning requires both, decisions on the choice of transport resources and decisions on the deployment of the chosen resources. Therefore, transportation orders must be assigned to resources for fulfillment while the operations for the usage of each resource have to be planned. Most freight forwarding companies have to cope with a strongly fluctuating demand on the transportation...

In recent years, China keeps working on restructuring the country’s multimodal transport and highly develops high-speed rail (HSR) infrastructure to improve efficiency. As economic engine of China, Yangtze River Delta region leading HSR development transporting modal transformation within whole country. The fast one hand improves passengers’ travel efficiency and, other hand, releases capacity ...

Road freight transportation between provinces of a country has an important effect on the traffic flow of intercity transportation networks. Therefore, an accurate estimation of the road freight transportation for provinces of a country is so crucial to improve the rural traffic operation in a largescale management. Accordingly, the focused case study database in this research is the informatio...

ITE JOURNAL / DECEMBER 2004 INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE OF PAPER Planning for freight transportation in urban areas is not performed as commonly or as thoroughly as planning for passenger transportation, despite the fact that one of the seven factors for metropolitan planning specified in the federal legislation (the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century) mentions freight. Most planners and...

Freight transport has undesirable effects on the environment. The most prominent of these is greenhouse gas emissions. Intermodal freight transport, where freight is shipped from origin to destination by a sequence of at least two transportation modes, offers the possibility of shifting freight (either partially or in full) from one mode to another in the hope of reducing the greenhouse emissio...

Road freight transportation is a major contributor to carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. Reducing these emissions in transportation route planning requires an understanding of vehicle emission models and their inclusion into the existing optimization methods. This paper provides a review of recent research on green road freight transportation.