A modal shift from road transport towards inland water or rail transport could reduce the total Green House Gas emissions and societal impact associated with Municipal Solid Waste management. However, this shift will take place only if demonstrated to be at least cost-neutral for the decision makers. In this paper we examine the feasibility of using multimodal truck and inland water transport, ...

In the last decades, many efforts have been made to solve multimodal optimization problems using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). To produce good results, these PSO algorithms need to specify some niching parameters to define the local neighborhood. In this paper, our motivation is to propose the novel neighborhood structures that remove undesirable niching parameters without sacrificing perf...

Returnable transport items (RTIs) are widely used in multimodal systems. However, due to the lack of effective tracking methods, RTIs management efficiency is low and easily lost, which directly indirectly causes economic losses enterprises. Internet Things (IoT) technology proved be realizing real-time tracing various objects diverse fields. an IoT-enabled system a has not been accepted cost d...

Rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) enables complete distribution of traveler information to end-users through the whole travel. European intelligent transportation system (ITS) architecture defines traveler information as specific functional area, and it comprises static and dynamic information about transport network condition, traveler information services a...

This paper analyses the operational integration between different multimodal transport services and proposes a slot allocation and pricing model for multimodal transport networks to maximize revenue and utilize capacity. The methodology entails a revenue-based optimal two-stage approach. Firstly, a slot allocation model is formulated by using stochastic integer programming for long-term contrac...

The effectiveness of Intelligent Transportation Systems depends largely on the ability to integrate information from diverse sources and the suitability of this information for the specific user. This paper describes a new approach for the management and exchange of this information, related to multimodal transportation. A novel software architecture is presented, with particular emphasis on th...