Assessment of a transport policy potential for intermodal mode shift on a European scale

Is transport subcontracting a barrier to modal shift? Empirical evidence from Germany in the context of horizontal transshipment technologies

“…Despite these limitations, our work provides important insights regarding the impact of demand side heterogeneity on the modal shift. We consider our work as part of the demand-driven modal shift studies, which, when compared to the supply focused works, are still underrepresented in the research (Tsamboulas et al 2007). We also hope that our study promotes an interest for further empirical investigations of technological and organizational path dependence and their interactions in real-world applications.…”

“…The majority of these semi-trailers are nonliftable (approximately 95 %), and therefore, they could not be addressed in the modal shift strategies until new horizontal transshipment solutions emerged. The modal shift from road transport to other freight transport modes is considered as the most critical action for accomplishing sustainable transport (Tsamboulas et al 2007). Against this background, several policies and incentives on the international (White Paper of the European Commission) and national levels (e.g., Germany's Freight Traffic and Logistics Master Plan) are planned or are already in use to promote CCFT.…”

“…Hence, investors in the horizontal transshipment technologies require prior knowledge of the freight transport demand (Feo et al 2011), thereby allowing the investors to address high demand market segments with combined transport mode. Because there are several types of players in transport chains, each with their own set of objectives and means (Crainic and Laporte 1997), the demand estimation approaches in the transportation market should address, along with the specifics of the transport modes, the characteristics of the decision makers (Tsamboulas et al 2007). However, there are a few papers that specifically address the heterogeneity of the demand side (decision makers) in choice of transportation mode (see, for example, Danielis et al 2005;Tsamboulas et al 2007;Eng-Larsson and Kohn 2012).…”

Intermodal Transportation: Considerations in Preference and the Problems Between Europe and Turkey

“…Corry and Kozan, 2008;Bruns et al, 2014;Lin et al, 2014), some others explored the EU intermodal policies and networks (e.g. Horn and Nemoto, 2005;Van Klink and Van Den Berg, 1998;Tsamboulas et al, 2007). Charler and Ridolfi (1994) discussed the modes, corridors and nodes for intermodal transportation in Europe by addressing the intercontainer flow.…”

Simulation and optimisation of intermodal barge transport networks

“…ular market structure and operations, but it is important to analyse them together in order to take care of potential competition distortions. The assessment of transport policy measures is performed on a European scale by Tsamboulas et al (2007). The authors focus on the potential of policy measures to produce a modal shift in favor of intermodal transport.…”