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Port and terminal operations management
Published in Dong-Ping Song, Container Logistics and Maritime Transport, 2021
Rail transport is one of the most effective ways to tackle the congestion and emission challenges in port hinterland area due to its high transportation capability and low carbon emission. Each freight train can remove 43–76 trucks from the roads.
High-speed rail versus environmental protection
Published in Andrzej Żurkowski, High-Speed Rail in Poland, 2018
Rail transport is considered to be one of the most environmentally friendly modes of transport. Pollutants’ emission by rail transport means is substantially lower than for road transport, which is responsible for 80% of pollution [1].
Environmental Management of the Logistic Chain
Published in Petros A. Ioannou, Intelligent Freight Transportation, 2008
Antonis Michail, Christopher F. Wooldridge
There are six main modes of transportation: road, rail, marine shipping, inland water shipping, air, and pipelines. Although all the transport modes impact on the environment to a certain extent, modal choices have a significant influence on the environmental performance of transport systems. A table summarizing the significant environmental effects of the different transport modes can be found at the end of the chapter in the appendix. In terms of energy efficiency and emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants, road and air transport may be considered less environmentally friendly modes than shipping and rail transport. Table 16.16 presents some key figures with regard to the environmental performance of the different transport modes in selected areas.
Optimal subsidies for rail containers: a bi-level programming solution
Published in Maritime Policy & Management, 2020
Jinglei Yang, Meifeng Luo, Meichao Shi
The rail transport of containerized cargo has been a hot topic among both transportation economists and policymakers because of its advantages in hauling a large number of high-value containers over a long land route without incurring a high trucking cost and external costs, such as road congestion and air pollution (Luo and Grigalunas 2003; Wu et al. 2012). As an important mode in multimodal transportation, it has also attracted attention in maritime studies due to its potential to improve efficiency and reduce pollution (Fan, Wilson, and Dahl 2012; Woodburn 2007). In developed countries, around 20% of the container port throughput uses rail for land haul (Yin and Zhou 2016). This number is even higher at the major ports in these countries. For example, about 42% of throughput at the Port of Hamburg comes in and out by rail1 and 29% at the port of Rotterdam (Yin and Zhou 2016). In 2017, rail containers represented about 25% of the throughput at the Port of Long Beach and this was expected to reach 35% after a new ‘on-dock’ facility was added.2 In comparison, the share of rail containers in China was not even 2% of the port throughput (Huang 2018).
Modelling, simulation and evaluation of ground vibration caused by rail vehicles*
Published in Vehicle System Dynamics, 2019
David J. Thompson, Georges Kouroussis, Evangelos Ntotsios
Railways are generally seen as an environmentally friendly and sustainable form of transport. Increasing the market share of rail transport for both passengers and freight is therefore seen as having positive effects on the environment, reducing congestion as well as air pollution and greenhouse gases. In [1], the EU states an aim of achieving a shift of 50% of road freight journeys over 300 km to rail and water by 2050, while the majority of medium distance passenger transport should go by rail.