This paper addresses a hub-and-spoke network problem for railroad freight, where a central planner is to find transport … air freight, have not been favoured by railways in the past. Such a structure could be profitable, however, if there exist … concentrated freight flows on some service links. We formulate a linear integer programming model whose objective function includes …

The Orient/East-Med Corridor, connecting central and southeastern Europe, provides important business potential for … European rail freight. However, freight transport by rail faces a number of challenges in terms of quality, cost … Rail Freight Corridors (RFCs) have been set up, one of them being the Orient/East-Med RFC No. 7, established in November …

programme. This paper focuses on the scope for rail services between China and Europe to attract freight currently travelling by … landlocked regions of Europe. It estimates that, by 2040, 3 million TEU of freight between the Far East and Europe might travel … between Asia and Europe, the creation of an economic belt for Eurasian cooperation, and maritime routes between China and all …