Transport corridors are receiving a growing level of attention, particularly with the surge of containerized maritime freight and the setting of more efficient time and costwise freight distribution systems. Global commodity chains, with a strong Pacific Asian component and controlled by large modal and intermodal freight operators, have become an operational reality. Particularly, the role of ...

We contribute an extension of the agent-based freight transport analysis model TAPAS-Z, whose aim is to simulate decisionmaking and other activities in transport chains. TAPAS-Z is a further development of the TAPAS model, and it enables stochastic variation, based on statistical distributions, of the locations of senders and receivers of freight, hence providing improved support for simulation...

Demand for freight transport is ever increasing. This demand in the European Union (EU) countries has increased about 3 times during the last three decades. Relatively, the same trend has been reported for the Netherlands. Motorways have a more important role in the road freight transport than other categories of roads. Now, they carry about 40 % of all vehicle-kilometers (CBS). The length of t...

Central to freight movement models is an understanding of where the freight commodities are produced and consumed. An important driver in the production and/or consumption of each commodity is the production and consumption of other commodities. In this paper, these important interactions between commodities are captured in a path based freight model which incorporates models of commodity produ...

Foliated transport networks represent a concept that aims to improve the efficiency of system by combining direct connections and hub spoke design. In addition these designs, foliated network requires high level dynamic planning control, as well optimisation goods resources between different layers. It highlights advantages individual designs minimizes their weaknesses, ultimately leading bette...

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...

Liberalisation process has just started in the Turkish rail market with the new law recently entered into force in order to comply with EU Directives. In the liberalised markets, service quality is the decisive factor that rail undertakings can use to create difference and achieve competitive advantages. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the customer perceived service quality for rail fre...

Goods movement and freight distribution are widely underrepresented in regional science and geographical research. This is surprising since a large body of traditional spatial theory has been developed with respect to transportation costs or to trade areas: those aspects that were originally closely connected with the exchange of goods. Growing attention is being paid in geography to related su...