Transport plays a pivotal role in the dynamics of our society, not only in economic terms but also in a spatial setting. New driving forces such as technologi­cal progress, privatisation and deregulation exert a structuring impact on transport systems and on their related consequences induding...

Intermodality has become a major goal in modem transport policy. The improvement of combined transport within the 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...

Randstad-regio's blijken zowel in 1970 als in 1990 de meest bereikbare te zijn. Wanneer echter de relatieve toename geanalyseerd wordt, blijkt dat juist de perifere regio' s het meest geprofiteerd te hebben van de aanleg van snelwegen. Ook bij de toename van de internationale bereikbaarheid...

In this paper the relation between the attractivity of cities as a location for firms and the accessibility via the road network is analyzed. First a brief theoretical introduction on the relation between transport infrastructure and spatial patterns of economic activities is given. In the...

This paper aims to address the linkage between logistics (in particular, the management of marketing channel flows) and transport markets, while also the interaction between these two markets and inter-modal container terminals is analysed. The marketing channel theory is used to describe all...

The future of the transport sector is fraught with uncertainties, as the system is influenced by many factors. The aim of this paper is to offer insight into the future of this sector, seen from a European perspective, by applying a scenario approach and designing four possible paths of...