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A key recent theme in maritime freight transport is the involvement of shipping lines in terminal management. Such investments are costly but allow liners to provide better service. Most of these new terminals are dedicated terminals but some are non-exclusive and let rivals access them for a...
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Vietnam, Deutschland – zwei Länder, wie sie in kultureller, sozialer, wirtschaftlicher und politischer Hinsicht kaum unterschiedlicher sein können. Die verschiedenen Beiträge des Bandes behandeln jedoch ein gemeinsames Thema: die Zukunft der Städte in beiden Ländern, fokussiert auf den...
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The development of hybrid and fully electric vehicles could deliver significant reductions of emissions from the … the the use of electricity shifts the point source emissions to one which has a lower emissions intensity. Changes in load … changes in emissions rates. The simulation results indicate that wholesale prices during the off-peak period will increase …
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Nowadays, the features which characterize intermodal transportation are still not very clear. Even though scientific research has permitted a sector analysis and a theoretic evolution, what inter-modality actually is, still remains to be clearly explained. The aim of the paper is to suggest a...
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The main messages of the paper in four points are the following: (1) The environmental target for 2050 (sixty percent emission decrease, oil dependence decrease) is a very progressive vision, clear target. (2) The tools to achieve these objectives are sometimes still contradictory in the White...
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This paper aims to compare the descriptive and predictive power of two classes of statistical estimation models for multimodal network flows, viz. the logit model and the neural network model. The application concerns a large data set on inter-regional European freight flows for two commodity...
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The United Kingdom has twice suffered major disruption as a result of fuel panics first in September 2000 coincident with a wave of fuel protests and more recently in March 2012 following politcal warnings of possible future supply chain disruption. In each case the disruption and economic...
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This document analizes the preferences of public transportation system users in Cartagena de Indias - Colombia. The research uses related variables on transportation modes chosen by people and some other characteristics of the people who make such decisions. The analysis allows us to understand...
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