In modern rail-rail transshipment yards huge gantry cranes spanning all railwaytracks allow for an ecient transshipment of containers between differentfreight trains. This way, multiple trains loaded with cargo for varying destinationscan be consolidated to a reduced number of homogeneous...

Rail-rail transshipment yards are an emerging and more ecient alternative totraditional shunting yards. Instead of a time-consuming reshuing of railcarsvia shunting hills, in these modern yards, huge gantry cranes tranship containersbetween different freight trains. As multiple cranes process...

Trotz intensiver Fördermaßnahmen für die Bahn durch den Bund und die EU verlagert sichdas Transportaufkommen immer weiter in Richtung der Straße. Nachteile der Bahn bestehenetwa in einer geringeren Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit und Zuverlässigkeit sowie einergeringen Flexibilität. Durch die...

In modern rail-rail transshipment yards huge gantry cranes spanning all railway tracks allow for an efficent transshipment of containers between different freight trains. This way, multiple trains loaded with cargo for varying destinations can be consolidated to a reduced number of homogeneous...