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Electric cars may significantly contribute to a reduction in external costs of urban transport; their introduction is however fraught with difficulties. This paper investigates by means of a scenario analysis which conditions have to be fulfilled for a successful introduction in the city of...
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In urban areas underground logistical systems - designed as delivery service to provide shops, industrial sites and office locations - may help to relieve the pressure of the road network in particular in the old inner cities which have to deal with increasing traffic congestion. When shops are...
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This paper presents a study on appraisal of the Betuweroute, a 160 kilometre dedicated freight railway line connecting … on questionable assumptions, the two most important ones being that freight transport by trucks would become … substantially more expensive, and that inland waterways would not be used more intensively for freight transport. Even though …
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in order to develop a customer-based and broadly applicable approach to the study of combined freight transport in Europe … of quality- of intermodal freight terminals. Much of the current research on transport is based on a comparison of … to the central research question of this paper: Which opportunities do intermodal freight terminals ofJeer for an …
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goods, with a clear focus on rail. The route choice and modal split of freight flows in Europe are simultaneously taking … of such policies however, is fraught with many difficulties. The increasing freight flows after the European integration … on the Trans Alpine freight transport systems in the light of the future integration of single national transport systems …
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that the propensity to make use of rail services of people living in the ring between 500 to 1000 meter from a railway …
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This paper aims to trace the consequences of various global scenarios for the transportation system and the environment. After a review and the identification of four new world scenario’s, the implications for sustainable transport are mapped out. The methodology is illustrated by means of a...
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European Union includes the refinement of the freight terminal services. A freight terminal is a nodal place where goods are … transhipped between any two or more transport modes. In this paper we describe and analyse the freight terminal market with the …, location and network configuration of freight terminals by employing Porter’s competitive focus. First, the industry …
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