Freight Transports in Romania, between Desires and Achievements. Past, Present and Future

Popescu, Teodor; Fistung, Frantz Daniel

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(15)00291-9

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“…The changes resulted in the decline of monetary benefits of transit by more than 60%. A similar development path has occurred in Romania, an important hinterland transit country of Central European flows, where overall road transports declined from the 2008 peak by more than 50% in a two year time period, and recovery has thereafter been fragile (Popescu & Fistung 2015). What is interesting in the Romanian case is the sustainability of railway transportation volumes, sharing similarity with Finland's decline in 2009, but with a consistent slow recovery thereafter, and in the end an increase in the modal share of total transports.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…Therefore, rapidly developing branches and volumes are prone to start and over-investment cycle due to time delays involved and possible misjudgement of the market development by decision makers. In Finland, the approach to investments has typically been proactive, differently from other bordering countries of Europe (Kovacs & Spens 2006;Bulis & Skapars 2013;Popescu & Fistung 2015).…”

Section: Discussion -Warehousing Investment Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Faltering demand and performance of the logistics service sector in two cities of South-East Finland

Hilmola¹,

Hämäläinen²

2016

Fennia

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Faltering demand and performance of the logistics service sector in two cities of South-East Finland

Hilmola¹,

Hämäläinen²

2016

Fennia

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“…Other Romanian researchers have shown before that Romanian authorities have drawn rather big and promising plans before 2007. These plans have been aiming at road, freight and inland waterways infrastructure and it is shown how they failed in the years to come, especially through a very low absorption rate of the cohesion funds allocated for Romania by the EU (Popescu and Fistung, 2014). The paper is structured as follows.…”

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The Evolution of Road Transport Infrastructure in Romania After 1990. Economic Implications

NEAGU

HAIDUC

Nicoară

2022

AUOES

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The scope of this paper is to present the evolution of Romanian roads infrastructure, its economic impact based on data extracted from the European Statistical Database (EUROSTAT) and the opportunities for strategic investments with potential highly positive impacts on the nation’s economy. The data used for this research spans over a period of 29 years, from 1990 right after the fall of the communist regime, to 2019 when Romania is already a Member of the European Union. The Romanian roads infrastructure is analysed according to its classification and compared with infrastructure from other European countries. The development of the Romanian transportation infrastructure in the selected timeframe was done in a complicated political environment with constant threat from corruption in all Public Authorities. The paper also aimed to establish the influence of road infrastructure over the economic development and international trade of goods and services of Romania. The econometric analysis was performed using Ordinary Least Squares method and studied the correlation between road length, as independent variable and GDP per capita, export and import of goods and services of Romania, as dependent variables. Based on empirical analysis, we found that Romanian road infrastructure is a significant determining factor for the development of the country’s economy, as well as for international trade, thus, its importance is undeniable and efforts should be made in order for it to flourish. Policy implications are also included, as well as suggestions for strategic investments in a national motorway network that would connect the Black Sea to the European Markets. Effects of such investments would ripple through the entire Romanian economy.

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“…China alone uses over 100,000 refrigerated vehicles as of 2016, and this number continues to grow at an annual rate of over 20%. Several publications have predicted that global road freight transport will grow by 2.5% a year up to the year 2030 (Demir, Bektaş, & Laporte, 2014;Li et al, 2015;Popescu & Fistung, 2015). To optimize refrigeration, many studies have quantified the temperature and quality of fresh food inside refrigerated vehicles and in refrigerated containers with limited space (Ahmed, Meade, & Medina, 2010;Chourasia & Goswami, 2007;Defraeye et al, 2016;Delele et al, 2008;Liu, Saman, & Bruno, 2012;Moureh, Tapsoba, Derens, & Flick, 2009;Vigneault & Castro, 2015;Wang & Yang, 2011).…”

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Computational fluid dynamic study of thermal effects of open doors of refrigerated vehicles

Zhang

Han

Qian

et al. 2017

J Food Process Engineering

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In this work, we use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models to compare the advantages and disadvantages of various door geometries by looking at how open doors of four different door geometries affect the stability of the temperature inside a refrigerated vehicle during unloading. The results show that, with opening D1 and D2, D3 and D4, D1, D4, the temperature increases from 4 °C to 22.34, 22.65, 20.39, and 21.32 °C after 4 min, respectively. The coefficients of temperature variation are .009, .011, .015, and .014, respectively. The volume infiltration flow rates are 2.202, 2.189, 0.983, and 0.961 m3/s, respectively. Comparing the coefficients shows that opening the D1D2 doors does not significantly perturb the temperature of the carriage, and opening the D1 door modifies the temperature less than opening the D4 door. The maximum root‐mean‐square error for volume mean temperature and wind speed is 1.21 °C and 0.27 m/s, respectively. Practical applications In urban cold‐chain delivery and distribution, the main solution to maintain temperature stability on opening the doors is to limit the number of doors and their area relative to the volume of the refrigerated vehicle. As a result, it is very important to optimize the structural design of refrigerated vehicles to reduce energy consumption, enhance temperature stability inside the refrigerated compartment, and ensure the quality and safety of the perishable food stored within. In this study, the evaluation index is used with CFD technology to study how open doors of various sizes and at different locations affect the temperature inside the refrigerated vehicle. This research provides not only a more detailed understanding of flow distribution and temperature variations inside the carriage while opening the door of a refrigerated compartment but also a reliable theoretical basis for optimizing the design of refrigerated vehicles.

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Freight Transports in Romania, between Desires and Achievements. Past, Present and Future

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Faltering demand and performance of the logistics service sector in two cities of South-East Finland

Faltering demand and performance of the logistics service sector in two cities of South-East Finland

The Evolution of Road Transport Infrastructure in Romania After 1990. Economic Implications

Computational fluid dynamic study of thermal effects of open doors of refrigerated vehicles

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