Maritime transport remains the dominant mode for international trade both for bulk transport of commodities and containerized break-bulk cargo. The economics of bulk transport still influence trade patterns and industrial location. Intermodal transport has become a global phenomenon as mechanized handling and containerization have reduced handling costs between modes and promoted their efficien...

The problem consists in finding a transshipment facilities location which maximizes the total net utility when the handling utilities at the facilities are stochastic variables, under supply, demand, and lower and upper capacity constraints. The total net utility is given by the expected total shipping utility minus the total fixed cost of the located facilities. Shipping utilities are given by...

This paper investigates the relative importance of service factors such as technology and facilities, how service providers are rated on those factors, and their relationship to customer satisfaction in a B2B environment. The results show that in the ocean freight shipping industry, customers placed more importance on factors such as efficiency in complaint handling, prompt availability of deli...

significant advantages of intermodal and containerized transport have increased the global interest to this mode of transportation. this growing interest is reflected in the annual volume of container cargo growth. however, the container transport inside iran does not have a proper place. comparing the count of containers entering and leaving ports with the statistics obtained from railway and ...

This paper attempts to portray the present unstable situation of handling passengers and freight inside Iran as well as to represent a clear view of the rail transport features that have given this mode of transport a special place among the transport system. In this paper the rate of fuel consumption as a main pivotal item has been evaluated as well as the amount and cost of fuel economized th...

Freight movements throughout the Mississippi Valley region are complicated by the presence of recurring congestion along the highway, rail, and port freight networks. This congestion has several deleterious effects on freight carriers, commuters, governments, and markets. State departments of transportation (DOTs) in the Mississippi Valley Freight Coalition are looking to identify the points of...

The paper identifies requirements for an Information and Communication (ICT) platform for the European freight transport sectoran e-Freight Platform. The e-Freight Platform can be used to support integrated multimodal transport and improved interoperability between freight transport and administration systems. The authors illustrate the potential of such platform for enhanced Business to Admini...

We study the joint problem of scheduling passenger and freight trains for complex railway networks, where the objective is to minimize the tardiness of passenger trains at station stops and the delay of freight trains. We model the problem as a mixed integer program and propose a twostep decomposition heuristic to solve the problem. The heuristic first vertically decomposes the train schedules ...

Understanding policy impacts on freight is essential for planners who have overlooked this transport group in the past and must evaluate new congestion alleviation policies with respect to regional economic and social goals. Since urban areas are limited in infrastructure expansion and travel demand continues to rise, congestion pricing is a potentially compelling policy alternative. This thesi...