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of hub-and-spoke in global logistics, where dryport works as a spoke and seaport as a hub. Design …
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of hub-and-spoke in global logistics, where dryport works as a spoke and seaport as a hub. Design …
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European Union has noted that freight transport volumes grow at about the same pace as the economy. Nevertheless, this trend is mainly due to road transport sector, which is the highest pollutant emitter. In fact, average CO2 emissions in grams per t-km of road transport are fourfold bigger than...
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The aim of this paper is to understand how inland terminals are developed in relation both to ports and to other inland terminals within a national system.
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Multimodal transportation offers an advanced platform for more efficient, reliable, flexible, and sustainable freight transportation. Planning such a complicated system provides interesting areas in Operations Research. This paper presents a structured overview of the multimodal transportation...
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This study sought to investigate the constructs that are desired by shippers in intermodal terminal services for bulk …
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be seen as a simple place where of loading and unloading cargoes, but integrated into the logistics network which is part … from large centers of consumption and production, be able to compete with the existing logistics network in terms of …
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performance. A survey of the barriers, both internal and external, to an efficient intermodal transport is included followed by an …
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A cost-transit time choice model: monomodality vs. intermodality. The Mediterranean and Italy are scenarios suited to consolidation of hub and spokes networks. The question is: are terrestrial spokes serious competitors of maritime spokes? This paper highlights the limits of the Italian rail...
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competitors for shipments from Asia to the U.S. East Coast are the U.S. Intermodal System and the Suez Canal. The Panama Canal is …-Panamax vessels. The U.S. Intermodal System has the shortest ocean navigation time (Asia to U.S. West Coast) of 12.3 days. Transit … expansion challenges. For the U.S. Intermodal System to remain competitive in the face of the Panama Canal expansion, further …
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