Railroads play a key role in the transportation of hazardous materials in North America. Rail transport differs from highway transport in several aspects, an important one being that rail transport involves trains in which many railcars carrying hazardous materials travel together. By contrast to truck accidents, it is possible that a train accident may involve multiple hazardous materials cars...

This study analyses how port governance systems in Europe have influenced the implementation of initiatives focused on promoting modal shifts freight transportation. Through a comprehensive review strategies, this research identified 49 individual shift among 21 authorities Europe. The results show that ports located Northern regions and managed by local governments, particularly Belgium Nether...

The multipurpose terminal in a port, is an intermodal platform that links the ship to the truck, or to another vessel in the case of transshipment. This paper presents an approach which aims to optimize the massive volumes processing of goods in order to arrive at a reduction in the time loading trucks, specifically; to reduce the time between the tare weighing and loaded truck. In order to ach...

As China’s high-speed rail and civil aviation gradually move from a competitive relationship to cooperative relationship, air-rail integration services (ARISs) have begun be promoted, an increasing number of passengers are choosing the combined travel mode aviation. two long-distance transportation modes involved, transfer time also affects service satisfaction, factors affecting ARIS need furt...