Analysis of modal shift potential towards intermodal transportation in short-distance inland container transport

Kurtuluş, Ercan; Çetin, İsmail

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.01.017

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“…Intermodal transport employs terminals that connect multiple modes of transportation. Freight circulation is done without changing the transport unit (Kurtuluş and Çetin, 2020). The higher the number of land and land-sea terminals, the easier the access to the connection network (Rydzkowski, 2015).…”

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Analysis of the Rail Transport Market in Poland

Marcysiak¹

2020

ERSJ

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Analysis of the Rail Transport Market in Poland

Marcysiak¹

2020

ERSJ

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“…Much of the past modal choice literature has concentrated on cost, time, delay, and frequency parameters, but distance has also received attention for short-distance transport ( 14 – 16 ). For example, Reis ( 14 ) investigated whether mode choice variables used in medium- to long-distance transport services can be used to explain agent behavior in short-distance (<250 mi) transport cases.…”

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Data-Driven Analysis of Short-Distance Freight Rail Transportation Potential: A Case Study of Log Movements in the U.S. Lake Superior Region

Lautala

Zhang

2022

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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As freight rail transportation in the U.S.A. increasingly concentrates on high-volume and longer distance train movements, shippers in rural areas with fragmented freight volumes, lighter line densities, and shorter distances have struggled to maintain the rail share of their shipments. The forest products industry in the mostly rural Lake Superior region is no exception and has seen a transition toward truck transportation for its main raw material, logs. The forest industry has attributed the phenomenon to reduced rail access and increased rail rates, and asked us to use their log shipment and rail operations network data to explore if (1) improved access through shared sidings, re-opened sidings, or both, and (2) rail rate reductions would encourage a modal shift from trucks back to rail. We developed four integer/mixed-integer programming models and several scenarios to research the problem. We concentrated on (1) allowing log consolidation from multiple companies at rail sidings and (2) rail rate reductions with and without volume thresholds. Our results showed that additional flexibility through shared rail sidings, re-opening of unused/closed sidings, or both, has minimal impact on increasing the rail modal share. Rail rate discounts with or without minimum volume thresholds were able to encourage a modal shift, but growing volume through rate reductions may not be attractive from the rail service provider perspective. While the results were not encouraging, our models offer the industry a data-based approach for further investigations, such as the impacts of potential shifts to a shortline cost model, or targeted analysis of specific mills that showed greater promise for a modal shift.

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“…(3) Cost efficiency [13]: cost efficiency is a metric that quantifies the cost incurred for adopting a mode of transport, viz-viz, the distance and time taken to travel to a place across a particular route. Routes and modes of transportation that are more cost-effective are, therefore, preferred.…”

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An Intelligent Framework for Analyzing the Feasible Modes of Transportation in Metropolitan Cities: A Hybrid Multicriteria Approach

Srivastava

Zhang

Eachempati

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Journal of Advanced Transportation

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The paper aims to build a hybrid personalized multicriteria model in the Indian transportation industry to identify the most feasible transport mode suitable for commuters’ customized preferences. A hybrid multicriterion model, i.e., Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), was used to compute the criteria weights, which were subsequently analyzed by three approaches, namely, Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), Fuzzy TOPSIS, Evaluation Based on Distance from Average Solution (EDA), and Interpretive Ranking Process (IRP). The case of an Indian metropolitan city, Hyderabad, is taken to illustrate the proposed approach. The paper highlights the following transport modes: metropolitan train (unconventional mode) and conventional modes such as the car, public bus transport, and bikes for Hyderabad. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis is performed to identify the consistency in ranking with variation in weights, and the Ensemble Ranking and transportation experts validate the rankings.

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Analysis of modal shift potential towards intermodal transportation in short-distance inland container transport

Cited by 51 publications

References 42 publications

Analysis of the Rail Transport Market in Poland

Analysis of the Rail Transport Market in Poland

Data-Driven Analysis of Short-Distance Freight Rail Transportation Potential: A Case Study of Log Movements in the U.S. Lake Superior Region

An Intelligent Framework for Analyzing the Feasible Modes of Transportation in Metropolitan Cities: A Hybrid Multicriteria Approach

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