Transshipment yards, where gantry cranes allow for an ecient transshipment of containersbetween different freight trains, are important entities in modern railway systems andfacilitate the general shift from point-to-point transport to hub-and-spoke railway systems.Modern rail-rail transshipment...

Almost ever since freight has been transported via rail, shunting yards (also called classification or marshaling yards) are operated in order to separate freight trains and reassemble new trains. The efficient use of shunting yards has a deep impact on the efficiency and reliability of rail...